Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église de Valfin
Saint-Claude, Jura, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- L'église en totalité (cad. 541 ZD 239) : inscription par arrêté du 3 décembre 2013
- Protection dates
- 2013/12/03 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 2e quart 19e siècle
- Dates
- 1830
- Architect or builder
- Dalloz Joseph-Marie (architecte)
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- 28 rue de la Mairie
- Commune
- Saint-Claude
- Département
- Jura
- Region
- Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.43862, 5.85551
- Mérimée reference
- PA39000120
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1843 map "Carte de l'Etat-Major 1:40,000 (1820-1866)" (IGN France — Géoportail).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La reconstruction de l'église, agrandie auparavant à plusieurs reprises, débuta en 1830 pour s'achever en 1833. Sa façade rectangulaire à deux niches latérales intègre le clocher-porche, terminé par un dôme, en avant-corps central. La nef compte cinq travées marquées par des colonnes et des pilastres doriques. L'ensemble, nef, choeur, abside, est couvert de fausses voûtes en bois.
English translation
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History
The reconstruction of the church, which had been enlarged several times previously, began in 1830 to be completed in 1833. Its rectangular façade with two lateral niches integrates the porch tower, terminated by a dome, as central avant-corps. The nave has five bays marked by columns and Doric pilasters. The whole, nave, choir, apse, is covered with false wooden vaults.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.