Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Pierre
Pray, Loir-et-Cher, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- L'église en totalité (cad. B 222) : 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
- Pray
- Département
- Loir-et-Cher
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.67728, 1.11658
- Mérimée reference
- PA41000050
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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 appartenait à l'abbaye de Marmoutier. Le gros oeuvre remonte au 12e siècle et se compose d'une nef rectangulaire achevée par un choeur à chevet plat. Deux grandes baies en arc brisé à remplage flamboyant furent percées au 15e siècle au sud de la nef. Les murs latéraux de la nef sont ornés de peintures murales du début du 16e siècle, découvertes en 1926.
English translation
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History
The church belonged to the abbey of Marmoutier. The main structure dates back to the 12th century and comprises a rectangular nave terminated by a choir with a flat chevet. Two large openings with pointed arches and flamboyant tracery were pierced in the 15th century to the south of the nave. The side walls of the nave are ornamented with murals of the early 16th century, discovered in 1926.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.