Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église paroissiale Sainte-Radegonde
La Bruffière, Vendée, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- L'église en totalité (cad. AC 191) : inscription par arrêté du 13 septembre 2007
- Protection dates
- 2007/09/13 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 19e siècle
- Dates
- 1886
- Architect or builder
- Ménard (architecte)
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- La Bruffière
- Département
- Vendée
- Region
- Pays de la Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.01365, -1.19723
- Mérimée reference
- PA85000027
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1824 map "A Map of the Vendee, South of the Loire and North of Brittany North of that River." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise reconstruite à neuf en 1886 par l'architecte Ménard, sur un parti d'inspiration italianisante et byzantine très riche, avec nef voûtée par des coupoles sur pendentifs surbaissées, collatéraux, transept et choeur à abside. L'édifice conserve une riche décoration peinte, mosaïquée, et l'ensemble de son mobilier.
English translation
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History
Church rebuilt from scratch in 1886 by architect Ménard, on a design of very rich Italianate and Byzantine inspiration, with nave vaulted by domes on flattened pendentives, aisles, transept and choir with apse. The building preserves rich painted decoration, mosaics, and all of its original furnishings.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.