Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Léger
Beuxes, Vienne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 17 juin 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/06/17 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Beuxes
- Département
- Vienne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.09455, 0.17967
- Mérimée reference
- PA00105352
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 du 12e siècle, avec partie supérieure du clocher datant du 14e siècle. Les deux travées de l'abside et celle du clocher sont voûtées en pierre. La nef présente une voussure en plâtre sur lattis de chêne. La flèche octogonale du clocher, tout comme l'édifice, est en pierre tendre de Bourré.
English translation
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History
Church of the 12th century, with the upper part of the bell tower dating from the 14th century. The two bays of the apse and that of the bell tower are vaulted in stone. The nave presents a plaster voussure on oak laths. The octagonal spire of the bell tower, like the building, is in soft stone from Bourré.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Pierreéglise2 mi
- Châteauchâteau2 mi
- Domaine de Montpensier ou Coudray-Montpensierchâteau2 mi
- Château de Montpensier (restes)château3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.