Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église
Champsecret, Orne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. P 77) : inscription par arrêté du 29 août 1984
- Protection dates
- 1984/08/29 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 17e siècle
- Dates
- 1682
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Champsecret
- Département
- Orne
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.60898, -0.55074
- Mérimée reference
- PA00110770
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamLionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public LibraryDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1702 map "A new and correct draught of the CHANNELL between ENGLAND and FRANCE" (Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'église fut construite en 1682 par Louis Berruyer, contrôleur des Tailles sous Louis XIV. L'édifice comprend un clocher porche, une nef simple, un transept saillant dont les bras comportent chacun deux chapelles et un choeur simple terminé par une abside octogonale.
English translation
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History
The church was constructed in 1682 by Louis Berruyer, controller of the Tailles under Louis XIV. The building comprises a porch tower, a simple nave, a projecting transept whose arms each contain two chapels and a simple choir terminated by an octagonal apse.
Nearby in the register
- Croix de l'ancien cimetièrecroix de cimetièreunder 1 mi
- Vieux manoirmanoirunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.