Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Médard
Torcé, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- La crypte en totalité (cad. A 284) : inscription par arrêté du 16 décembre 2003
- Protection dates
- 2003/12/16 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 11e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- rue Pierre-de-Langle
- Commune
- Torcé
- Département
- Ille-et-Vilaine
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.06196, -1.26538
- Mérimée reference
- PA35000022
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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 1768 map "97 Laval." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise mentionnée à la fin du 11e siècle, reconstruite aux 15e et 16e siècles selon un plan en croix latine, à chevet plat. De l'église romane subsiste une crypte. En 1652, la fenêtre du choeur a été bouchée lors de l'installation du retable. La chapelle sud a été reconstruite en 1754. Un clocher a été ajouté au 18e siècle. La nef a été remaniée en grande partie au 19e siècle.
English translation
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History
Church mentioned at the end of the 11th century, rebuilt in the 15th and 16th centuries according to a Latin cross plan with a flat chevet. From the Romanesque church remains a crypt. In 1652, the choir window was blocked when the retable was installed. The south chapel was rebuilt in 1754. A bell tower was added in the 18th century. The nave was substantially altered in the 19th century.