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Église Notre-Dame

Cholet, Maine-et-Loire, France

The record

Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Eglise (cad. AB 172) : inscription par arrêté du 1er juillet 1999
Protection dates
1999/07/01 : inscrit MH
Type
église
Main period of construction
milieu 19e siècle
Architect or builder
TESSIER Alfred (architecte)
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Commune
Cholet
Département
Maine-et-Loire
Region
Pays de la Loire
Country
France
Coordinates
47.06104, -0.88094
Mérimée reference
PA49000020

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1579 map "(28) Andegavensium." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Sur l'emplacement d'une priorale médiévale (devenue paroissiale au 16e siècle) , une première église est construite dans le style néo-classique dans la première moitié du 19e siècle. A partir des années 1850, reconstruction dans le style néo-gothique, idéalisé sur des modèles du 13e siècle, par l'architecte Alfred Tessier : nef à bas-côtés et chapelles latérales, choeur à déambulatoire et chapelles rayonnantes, charpente métallique à la Polonceau, ...

English translation

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On the site of a medieval priory (which became parochial in the 16th century), a first church is built in the neo-classical style in the first half of the 19th century. From the 1850s onwards, reconstruction in the neo-Gothic style, idealised on models from the 13th century, by the architect Alfred Tessier: nave with aisles and lateral chapels, choir with ambulatory and radiating chapels, metal roof structure in the Polonceau system, ...

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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