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Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste

Steenwerck, Nord, France

The record

Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
L’église Saint-Jean-Baptiste, située Grand’Place ou place du Général de Gaulle, sur la parcelle n° 164 figurant au cadastre section E : inscription par arrêté du 15 juillet 2025
Protection dates
2025/07/15 : inscrit MH
Type
église
Main period of construction
2e quart 20e siècle
Dates
1928
Architect or builder
Lemay Armand (architecte), Turpin atelier (peintre verrier), Ringot Maurice (sculpteur)
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Address
Grand’Place ou place du Général de Gaulle
Commune
Steenwerck
Département
Nord
Region
Hauts-de-France
Country
France
Coordinates
50.70063, 2.77721
Mérimée reference
PA59000231

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Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1869 map "Pas-de-Calais." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Construite en 1928, cette église romano-byzantine remplace celle détruite pendant la première Guerre Mondiale. L'architecte lillois Armand Lemay qui la dessine choisi la brique, inverse son orientation et modifie son implantation pour dégager une place en relation avec le monument aux morts.

English translation

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Built in 1928, this Romano-Byzantine church replaces the one destroyed during the First World War. The Lille architect Armand Lemay who designed it chose brick, reversed its orientation and modified its location to create a space in relation to the war memorial.

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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