Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Saturnin
Pouillé, Loir-et-Cher, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 11 janvier 1951
- Protection dates
- 1951/01/11 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 10e siècle, 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Pouillé
- Département
- Loir-et-Cher
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.31742, 1.28901
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098546
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1592 map "Topographia Aug. Turon Ducatus et confinium Gallia Cestica ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
De l'édifice du 10e siècle subsiste la plus grande partie de la façade ouest. La porte en plein cintre a été refaite au 12e siècle. La nef a été reconstruite au 12e siècle et aboutit à une travée carrée sise sous le clocher, et couverte d'une coupole sur trompes. L'abside est semi-circulaire. Le clocher carré a son étage de beffroi ajouré de baies géminées dont les colonnettes sont amorties par des chapiteaux sculptés.
English translation
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History
Of the edifice of the 10th century subsists the greater part of the western façade. The round arch door was remade in the 12th century. The nave was rebuilt in the 12th century and leads to a square bay situated under the bell tower, and covered by a dome on squinches. The apse is semi-circular. The square bell tower has its belfry storey pierced with twin openings whose columnettes are capped with sculpted capitals.
Nearby in the register
- Barrage des Mazelles (également sur commune de Pouillé)barrage mobileunder 1 mi
- Ruines romaines des Mazellessite archéologiqueunder 1 mi
- Église Sainte-Julitte Saint-Cyréglise2 mi
- Ancien châteauchâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.