Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église de la Nativité-de-la-Sainte-Vierge
Villars-les-Dombes, Ain, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 28 janvier 1927
- Protection dates
- 1927/01/28 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Villars-les-Dombes
- Département
- Ain
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.00136, 5.02902
- Mérimée reference
- PA00116594
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1632 map "Description du Pais de Bresse." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise mentionnée en 1250. Le mur sud de la nef contient des traces de l'époque romane (ouvertures en plein cintre ; colonnes engagées avec chapiteau orné). L'abside et les chapelles témoignent des époques gothique et Renaissance. Clocher reconstruit en 1834. Reconstruction partielle de l'édifice en 1895 (toitures, sacristie, arc triomphant contreforté). Deux passages dits "Berrichons", rares dans la région, s'ouvrent sur la nef.
English translation
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History
Church mentioned in 1250. The south wall of the nave contains traces of the Romanesque period (round-arch openings; engaged columns with decorated capital). The apse and chapels testify to the Gothic and Renaissance periods. Bell tower rebuilt in 1834. Partial reconstruction of the building in 1895 (roofs, sacristy, buttressed triumphal arch). Two passages called "Berrichons", rare in the region, open onto the nave.
Nearby in the register
- Motte féodale dite Poype de Villarsédifice fortifiéunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Marceléglise2 mi
- Châteauchâteau2 mi
- Tour et bâtiment annexeédifice fortifié3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.