Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancienne église de Monthault
Romorantin-Lanthenay, Loir-et-Cher, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise de Monthault (ancienne) : inscription par arrêté du 7 mai 1936
- Protection dates
- 1936/05/07 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Romorantin-Lanthenay
- Département
- Loir-et-Cher
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.41131, 1.72851
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098458
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1760 map "29 Blois." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise de plan rectangulaire ouverte, à l'ouest, par un portail plein cintre avec voussures ornées de dents de scie et de roses supportées par deux colonnes à chapiteaux sculptés. Au-dessus du portail, corbeaux sculptés de figures grimaçantes. Sur la façade nord est percée une porte plein cintre. Une fenêtre également en plein cintre est encadrée par deux colonnettes cannelées en torsades avec chapiteaux sculptés. Sur la façade sud subsistent deux baies en arcs brisés paraissant dater du 15e siècle. Cette église était paroissiale jusqu'à la Révolution.
English translation
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History
Church of rectangular plan opening, to the west, by a round-arch portal with mouldings decorated with dogtooth and roses supported by two columns with sculpted capitals. Above the portal, corbels sculpted with grimacing figures. On the north facade is pierced a round-arch door. A window also in round arch is framed by two fluted colonnettes in twisted forms with sculpted capitals. On the south facade remain two pointed-arch openings appearing to date from the 15th century. This church was parochial until the Revolution.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.