Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Jean
Tourailles, Loir-et-Cher, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- L'église en totalité (cad. A 44) : inscription par arrêté du 26 septembre 2007
- Protection dates
- 2007/09/26 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Tourailles
- Département
- Loir-et-Cher
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.68504, 1.15842
- Mérimée reference
- PA41000046
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 1637 map "The Dvkedome of Turone. Touraine. Tvronensis Ducatus" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'édifice s'inscrit dans un typologie représentative de la petite Beauce, de plan rectangulaire, et qui peut être daté du 12e siècle. D'importants travaux ont été effectués au 16e siècle, dont la charpente en chevrons formant fermes. Le porche qui précédait la façade occidentale a disparu. A l'intérieur, des peintures murales occupent les murs de la nef et le revers du pignon ouest. Ce décor s'organise en trois registres : deux registres supérieurs historiés, séparés par un large bandeau rouge, et dont chaque niveau est cloisonné en petites scènes par de larges bandeaux verticaux de la même couleur ; au registre inférieur se développe sans doue une tenture.
English translation
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History
The building falls within a typology representative of the small Beauce, of rectangular plan, and which can be dated to the 12th century. Significant work was carried out in the 16th century, including the roof structure in rafters forming roof trusses. The porch which preceded the western façade has disappeared. Inside, mural paintings occupy the walls of the nave and the reverse of the western gable. This decoration is organised in three registers: two upper historical registers, separated by a wide red band, and each level of which is partitioned into small scenes by wide vertical bands of the same colour; in the lower register a hanging would undoubtedly develop.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.