Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Léger
Thenissey, Côte-d'Or, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. AB 208) : inscription par arrêté du 17 mars 1999
- Protection dates
- 1999/03/17 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 15e siècle
- Later work
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Thenissey
- Département
- Côte-d'Or
- Region
- Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.49619, 4.62255
- Mérimée reference
- PA21000017
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 1742 map "Bourgogne septentrionale." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise du 12e siècle (choeur couvert de voûtes en berceau brisé). La nef est couverte d'une charpente à chevrons portant ferme lambrissée aux 15e-16e siècles. Façade refaite au 18e siècle. A l'intérieur, décor peint (redécouvert lors de travaux récents) du 16e siècle représentant des scènes de martyre et des saints.
English translation
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History
Church of the 12th century (choir covered with broken barrel vaults). The nave is covered with a roof structure with rafters bearing a coffered tie beam of the 15th-16th centuries. Façade remade in the 18th century. In the interior, painted decoration (rediscovered during recent works) of the 16th century depicting scenes of martyrdom and saints.
Nearby in the register
- Château (vieux)châteauunder 1 mi
- Châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Grange (ancienne) dépendant de la ferme de Grisseygrange2 mi
- Égliseéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.