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Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste

Faucigny, Haute-Savoie, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
L'église en totalité (cad. A 725) : inscription par arrêté du 30 août 2001
Protection dates
2001/08/30 : inscrit MH
Type
église
Main period of construction
19e siècle
Dates
1854
Architect or builder
FERRARIS Jean (peintre)
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Lieu-dit
le Village
Commune
Faucigny
Département
Haute-Savoie
Region
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Country
France
Coordinates
46.11810, 6.35882
Mérimée reference
PA74000004

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Swisserland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Edifice de plan centré en croix grecque. Sacristie dans l'angle sud-est. A l'intérieur, la croisée du transept est coiffée d'une coupole sur pendentifs. Décor peint par Ferraris. Sur la voûte du choeur sont représentés les quatre Docteurs de l'Eglise. Dans le transept, le décor est consacré aux Evangélistes et à Marie. Sur la coupole est représentée l'Assomption. Soulignant les arcs-doubleaux et les écoinçons, un décor stylisé de guirlandes et de gerbes de fleurs. L'église a conservé son mobilier d'origine (chaire, confessionnal, tableaux du chemin de croix, autels, statuaire).

English translation

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Building with a centralized plan in the form of a Greek cross. Sacristy in the south-east angle. In the interior, the crossing of the transept is crowned by a dome on pendentives. Decoration painted by Ferraris. On the vault of the choir are represented the four Doctors of the Church. In the transept, the decoration is devoted to the Evangelists and Mary. On the dome is represented the Assumption. Underlining the arches and the spandrels, a stylized decoration of garlands and sheaves of flowers. The church has retained its original furnishings (pulpit, confessional, paintings of the Way of the Cross, altars, statuary).

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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