Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Notre-Dame
Mesland, Loir-et-Cher, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé), in part
- Protection
- classé MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Portail : classement par arrêté du 16 septembre 1946
- Protection dates
- 1946/09/16 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Mesland
- Département
- Loir-et-Cher
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.51022, 1.12260
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098488
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 1637 map "The Dvkedome of Turone. Touraine. Tvronensis Ducatus" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise fondée en 1060, composée d'une nef simple, d'un choeur plus étroit que la nef et d'un chevet plat. Clocher carré sur une travée du choeur, percé de baies plein cintre et orné d'une arcature à colonnettes refaites. L'église s'ouvre par un portail du 12e siècle avec archivoltes plein cintre concentriques, chaque claveau étant sculpté séparément de têtes plates. L'archivolte repose sur quatre colonnettes à chapiteaux sculptés (griffons, têtes grimaçantes).
English translation
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History
Church founded in 1060, composed of a single nave, a choir narrower than the nave and a flat chevet. Square bell tower over one bay of the choir, pierced with round-arched openings and decorated with an arcading with small columns that have been remade. The church opens through a 12th-century portal with concentric round-arched archivolts, each voussoir being sculpted separately with flat heads. The archivolt rests on four small columns with sculpted capitals (griffons, grinning heads).
Nearby in the register
- Grange de la Perdrièregrange1 mi
- Château et moulinchâteau2 mi
- Église Saint-Gervais Saint-Portaiséglise2 mi
- Château d'Onzainchâteau3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.