Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Rémy
Leigné-les-Bois, Vienne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 14 février 1939
- Protection dates
- 1939/02/14 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Leigné-les-Bois
- Département
- Vienne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.75922, 0.70702
- Mérimée reference
- PA00105487
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1592 map "Topographia Aug. Turon Ducatus et confinium Gallia Cestica ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Nef de style flamboyant. Chevet plat. Au nord et au sud, deux chapelles de même style, celle du nord étant couverte à liernes et tiercerons. L'entrée de cette église du 15e siècle se fait par un clocher-porche du 12e, à coupole à oeil sur trompes. La tour du clocher est ouverte, sur ses faces nord et sud, de deux baies en plein cintre surmontées d'une corniche ornée d'étoiles, supportée par des modillons à têtes. Les voûtes de l'église reposent sur des supports sans chapiteaux.
English translation
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History
Nave of flamboyant style. Flat chevet. To the north and south, two chapels of the same style, the northern one being covered with liernes and tiercerons. The entrance to this 15th-century church is through a 12th-century porch tower, with a dome on squinches. The bell tower is opened, on its north and south faces, with two round-arch openings surmounted by a cornice decorated with stars, supported by corbels with heads. The vaults of the church rest on supports without capitals.