Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Notre-Dame
Françay, Loir-et-Cher, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- L'église en totalité (cad. D 162) : inscription par arrêté du 21 décembre 2007
- Protection dates
- 2007/12/21 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Françay
- Département
- Loir-et-Cher
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.61825, 1.12633
- Mérimée reference
- PA41000048
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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'église dépendait de l'abbaye de Bourgmoyen. L'édifice remonte au 12e siècle et est formé d'un vaisseau terminé par une abside semi circulaire couverte d'un cul de four. Son entrée est flanquée de piliers à triple ressaut que surmontent des chapiteaux ornés de feuillages et de masques grimaçants. Un portail roman s'ouvre au sud, sous un porche du 16e siècle. Les jambages sont flanqués de colonnettes à chapiteaux sculptés. Au 16e siècle, l'église est couverte d'un lambris, la nef est flanquée de deux chapelles latérales. Des peintures murales ont été mises à jour, datant de la fin du Moyen-Age.
English translation
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History
The church was dependent on the abbey of Bourgmoyen. The building dates back to the 12th century and is formed of a nave terminated by a semicircular apse covered with a half-dome. Its entrance is flanked by pillars with triple setbacks surmounted by capitals ornamented with foliage and grimacing masks. A Romanesque portal opens to the south, beneath a porch of the 16th century. The jambs are flanked by small columns with sculpted capitals. In the 16th century, the church is covered with timber ceiling, the nave is flanked by two lateral chapels. Mural paintings were uncovered, dating from the end of the Middle Ages.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.