Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
église Saint-Étienne
Beaulieu-sur-Loire, Loiret, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. AC 164) : inscription par arrêté du 28 octobre 1986
- Protection dates
- 1986/10/28 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 11e siècle, 12e siècle, 16e siècle, 2e quart 19e siècle
- Dates
- 1597, 1836
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Beaulieu-sur-Loire
- Département
- Loiret
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.54329, 2.81718
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098706
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IGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La terre de Beaulieu relevait des chanoines de Saint-Etienne de Bourges depuis la fin du 14e siècle. La ville était entourée de fortifications et dominée par un château construit à la fin du 12e siècle par Geoffroy de la Brière. Avant la fin du 14e siècle, les chanoines devinrent propriétaires du château, le firent restaurer et garnir d'ouvrages de défense. Au 18e siècle, les chanoines firent abattre la partie est et construire, à la place, une maison servant actuellement de presbytère. L'église romane élevée au 11e siècle, qui jouxtait à l'est le château, fut incendiée par les Protestants en 1569. Les nefs latérales auraient été détruites. Primitivement, l'édifice devait en comporter trois. Le chapitre de Bourges fit reconstruire le transept et le chevet (1597). Il reste une nef romane, peut-être du 11e siècle. La porte monumentale de la façade fut exécutée vers 1836. Boiseries et embellissements remontent au 18e siècle.
English translation
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History
The land of Beaulieu had been held of the canons of Saint-Etienne of Bourges since the end of the 14th century. The town was surrounded by fortifications and dominated by a castle built at the end of the 12th century by Geoffroy de la Brière. Before the end of the 14th century, the canons became owners of the castle, had it restored and furnished with defensive works. In the 18th century, the canons had the eastern part demolished and built in its place a house now serving as a presbytery. The Romanesque church raised in the 11th century, which adjoined to the east the castle, was set alight by Protestants in 1569. The lateral aisles would have been destroyed. Primitively, the edifice must have comprised three. The chapter of Bourges had the transept and chevet rebuilt (1597). There remains a Romanesque nave, perhaps of the 11th century. The monumental door of the façade was executed around 1836. Woodwork and embellishments date from the 18th century.
Nearby in the register
- Ancien châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Aignanéglise2 mi
- Château d'Assaychâteau2 mi
- Château de Courcelles-le-Roychâteau3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.