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Église Saint-Loup

Saint-Loup, Loir-et-Cher, France

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Designation
Historic monument, classified (classé)
Protection
classé MH
Extent of protection
Eglise : classement par arrêté du 6 mars 1906
Protection dates
1906/03/06 : classé MH
Type
église
Main period of construction
12e siècle
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Commune
Saint-Loup
Département
Loir-et-Cher
Region
Centre-Val de Loire
Country
France
Coordinates
47.26615, 1.83918
Mérimée reference
PA00098584

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1713 map "Le Berri et Le Nivernois, La Beauce et La Sologne ...." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Cette église se compose d'un porche, et d'une nef avec abside semi circulaire. A l'intérieur, les murs étaient couverts de peintures dont des traces importantes sont visibles à la voûte de l'abside, au pignon occidental et sur le mur sud des deuxième et troisième travées. L'abside et la travée qui la précède sont les parties les plus anciennes de l'édifice. Elles présentent les dispositions, la mouluration et la sculpture de la fin du 12e siècle. Les trois autres travées de la nef paraissent dater du début du 13e siècle. Le porche était probablement destiné à porter le clocher. Une chapelle a dû exister au-dessus de ce porche.

English translation

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This church is composed of a porch, and a nave with a semi-circular apse. In the interior, the walls were covered with paintings of which important traces are visible on the vault of the apse, on the western gable and on the south wall of the second and third bays. The apse and the bay which precedes it are the oldest parts of the building. They present the layouts, moulding and carving of the end of the 12th century. The three other bays of the nave appear to date from the beginning of the 13th century. The porch was probably intended to carry the bell tower. A chapel must have existed above this porch.

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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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