Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Genest
Lavardin, Loir-et-Cher, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise Saint-Genest : classement par liste de 1862
- Protection dates
- 1862 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Lavardin
- Département
- Loir-et-Cher
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.74143, 0.88592
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098462
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1725 map "Le Maine, L'Anjou et La Touraine, La Beauche et La Sologne ...." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'intérieur de l'édifice est presque entièrement décoré de peintures murales (fresque et détrempe) réalisées du 12e au 16e siècle. Chapiteaux sculptés.
English translation
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History
The interior of the building is almost entirely decorated with wall paintings (fresco and distemper) carried out from the 12th to the 16th century. Sculptured capitals.
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