Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste
Dercé, Vienne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 4 mai 1943
- Protection dates
- 1943/05/04 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Dercé
- Département
- Vienne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.95009, 0.22323
- Mérimée reference
- PA00105451
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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
L'église se compose d'une nef unique dont les premières travées datent du 12e siècle, avec un transept et un choeur à chevet plat du 16e siècle. Le clocher est accolé à la façade sud. La nef est plafonnée. Le transept et le choeur sont voûtés sur croisées d'ogives à mouluration prismatique. La nef romane conserve des chapiteaux de feuillages stylisés. Deux peintures à fresque du 16e siècle et deux du 17e sont conservées.
English translation
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History
The church consists of a single nave whose earliest bays date from the 12th century, with a transept and a choir with a flat chevet from the 16th century. The bell tower is attached to the south façade. The nave is coffered. The transept and choir are vaulted on ribbed vaults with prismatic moulding. The Romanesque nave retains stylised foliage capitals. Two 16th-century frescoes and two from the 17th century are preserved.
Nearby in the register
- Croix de cimetièrecroix de cimetièreunder 1 mi
- Château de la Roche-du-Mainechâteau2 mi
- Logis de la Haute-Portemanoir2 mi
- Égliseéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.