Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Prieuré Saint-Gilles et Saint-Loup de Bléron
Saint-Martin-d'Auxigny, Cher, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Tous les éléments bâtis et les sols correspondant à l'emprise de l'enclos du prieuré et recelant des vestiges archéologiques (cad. D 1406 à 1408, lieudit Bléron) : inscription par arrêté du 8 août 2013
- Protection dates
- 2013/08/08 : inscrit MH
- Type
- prieuré, site archéologique
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de l'État
- Lieu-dit
- Bléron
- Commune
- Saint-Martin-d'Auxigny
- Département
- Cher
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.19803, 2.34897
- Mérimée reference
- PA18000059
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1707 map "La Province de Berry. La Generalite de Bourges." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Il s'agit d'une obédience de l'abbaye augustinienne de Saint-Ambroix de Bourges. Le prieuré est évocateur de l'idéal de vie monastique basé sur les notions de pauvreté et de travail manuel. L'église prieurale affiche une grande sobriété architecturale, caractéristique de ce type de construction du 13ème siècle.
English translation
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History
This is a house of the Augustinian abbey of Saint-Ambroix of Bourges. The priory is evocative of the ideal of monastic life based on the notions of poverty and manual work. The priory church displays great architectural sobriety, characteristic of this type of construction of the 13th century.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.