Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Ay
Saint-Ay, Loiret, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Choeur ; les deux chapelles latérales et les deux travées de la nef précédant le choeur : inscription par arrêté du 6 mars 1928
- Protection dates
- 1928/03/06 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Ay
- Département
- Loiret
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.85775, 1.75363
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098998
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 1760 map "28 Vendome." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise à trois nefs. Chevet carré. Chapiteaux sculptés. Haute nef voûtée en bois, avec entraits et poinçons apparents. Baie à meneaux dans le sanctuaire. Le reste de l'édifice a été remanié à plusieurs époques.
English translation
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History
Church with three naves. Square chevet. Sculpted capitals. High nave vaulted in wood, with visible tie-beams and king-posts. Opening with tracery in the sanctuary. The rest of the building has been modified in several periods.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.