Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Loup-Saint-Gilles
La Fontenelle, Loir-et-Cher, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. C 251) : inscription par arrêté du 15 juillet 1971
- Protection dates
- 1971/07/15 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- La Fontenelle
- Département
- Loir-et-Cher
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.06092, 1.02467
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098443
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Perchensis Comitatus : La Perche Comte" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'église présente une nef simple terminée par une abside en hémicycle. La façade occidentale présente trois arcades en plein cintre, celle du milieu renfermant le portail. Des contreforts gothiques ont été ajoutés aux angles. A l'entrée du coeur, deux colonnettes en bois sculpté portent un Christ en bois sculpté du 16e siècle.
English translation
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History
The church has a simple nave terminated by a hemicyclic chevet. The western façade has three round arch arcades, the central one containing the portal. Gothic buttresses have been added at the angles. At the entrance to the choir, two carved wooden columns support a carved wooden Christ of the 16th century.
Nearby in the register
- Château de Drouéchâteau3 mi
- Château de Bois-Ruffinédifice fortifié3 mi
- Château de Courtalain et ses dépendanceschâteau3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.