Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église
Le Theil, Orne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. F 260) : inscription par arrêté du 24 mars 1975
- Protection dates
- 1975/03/24 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Le Theil
- Département
- Orne
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.26444, 0.68968
- Mérimée reference
- PA00110955
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Perchensis Comitatus : La Perche Comte" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'église semble avoir été primitivement la chapelle du château qui fut le siège d'une importante châtellenie du Perche. Le porche roman est la seule partie qui subsiste de cette période. En 1428, lors de la guerre de Cent ans, le château et le bourg furent en grande partie détruits. L'église fut relevée après 1450. Elle se compose d'une nef terminée par un choeur en rond-point et un bas-côté voûté d'ogives qui vient buter sur le clocher qui conserve quelques traces défensives. La nef, le choeur et le clocher ont été remaniés à différentes époques, et notamment au 19e siècle.
English translation
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History
The church appears to have originally been the chapel of the castle, which was the seat of an important castellany of the Perche. The Romanesque porch is the only part that survives from this period. In 1428, during the Hundred Years' War, the castle and the town were largely destroyed. The church was rebuilt after 1450. It consists of a nave terminated by a chevet with radiating chapels and an aisle with rib vault that abuts against the bell tower which retains some defensive traces. The nave, the chevet and the bell tower were altered at different periods, and notably in the 19th century.
Nearby in the register
- Château de Beauvaischâteau2 mi
- Manoir de la Gauberdièremanoir2 mi
- Église Saint-Martinéglise2 mi
- Château de Lorièrechâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.