Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Aignan
Sept-Forges, Orne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- clocher : inscription par arrêté du 17 février 1928
- Protection dates
- 1928/02/17 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Sept-Forges
- Département
- Orne
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.49179, -0.53836
- Mérimée reference
- PA00110950
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — Géoportail
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1706 map "L'Evesche du Mans (northwest sheet)." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'origine de l'église semble remonter à l'époque romane. Au cours des siècles, l'édifice a subi d'importantes transformations. Le clocher de style Renaissance présente une tour carrée, surmontée d'un beffroi ajouré sur ses quatre faces de fenêtres jumelées, couronné sur chaque face par un pignon élancé, décoré de crochets et d'une statuette, flanqué à la base de gargouilles et de pinacles. Ces pignons, ajourés d'une étroite fenêtre haute, sont reliés par des charpentes au croisement desquelles s'élève une flèche.
English translation
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History
The origin of the church seems to date back to the Romanesque period. Over the centuries, the building has undergone major transformations. The bell tower of Renaissance style presents a square tower, surmounted by an openwork belfry on its four faces with paired windows, crowned on each face by an elegant gable, decorated with crochets and a statuette, flanked at the base by gargoyles and pinnacles. These gables, pierced with a narrow high window, are linked by roof structures at the intersection of which rises a spire.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.