Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
église Saint-Étienne
Tour-en-Sologne, Loir-et-Cher, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise paroissiale : inscription par arrêté du 10 août 1949
- Protection dates
- 1949/08/10 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Tour-en-Sologne
- Département
- Loir-et-Cher
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.53783, 1.50067
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098622
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 composée d'une nef d'origine romane datant du 12e siècle, remaniée et agrandie au 16e siècle ; d'un choeur et d'une abside à chevet plat du 16e siècle. Un arc triomphal en tiers point sépare la nef du choeur. Au 16e siècle fut ajouté au nord un bas-côté éclairé par des baies Renaissance. Un porche en bois de la même époque précède la façade occidentale.
English translation
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History
Church composed of a nave of Romanesque origin dating from the 12th century, altered and enlarged in the 16th century; of a choir and an apse with flat chevet of the 16th century. A pointed-arch triumphal arch separates the nave from the choir. In the 16th century a north aisle was added, lit by Renaissance openings. A timber porch of the same period precedes the western facade.
Nearby in the register
- Château de Villesavinchâteauunder 1 mi
- Halle aux grainshalle aux grains2 mi
- Maison ancienne (face au portail d'entrée de l'église)maison3 mi
- Église Notre-Dameéglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.