Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
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
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public LibraryUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDigital Commonwealth, Boston Public LibraryDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1869 map "Pas-de-Calais." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
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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History
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
- Maison néoflamandemaisonunder 1 mi
- Motte féodaleédifice fortifié3 mi
- Maison dite de la prévotétribunal3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.