Église Saint-Symphorien de Touches

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L'église Saint-Symphorien de Touches est une église située sur le territoire de la commune de Mercurey dans le département français de Saône-et-Loire et la région Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.

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Mercurey

Mercurey is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of eastern France. The village dates from pre-historic times and is the most widely recognized and important wine village of the Côte Chalonnaise, producing more wines than all other village appellations combined. The composer and musicologist Nicolas Roze was born in Mercurey.

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Saint-Martin-sous-Montaigu

Saint-Martin-sous-Montaigu is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.

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Château de Chamirey

Château de Chamirey is a wine producer in the town of Mercurey, in Burgundy, France, that produces white and red wine. They are best known for their Monopole wines, the Les Ruelles 1er cru red and the La Mission 1er cru white. The estate holds 37.7 hectares in Mercurey. 8.55 hectares of the estate's holdings are premier cru, of which 3.3 hectares are monopole vineyards

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Mellecey

Mellecey is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.

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Côte Chalonnaise

Côte Chalonnaise is a subregion of the Burgundy wine region of France. Côte Chalonnaise lies to the south of the Côte d'Or continuing the same geology southward. It is still in the main area of Burgundy wine production but it includes no Grand cru vineyards. Like the Côte d'Or, it is at the western edge of the broad valley of the river Saône, on the rising ground overlooking the town of Chalon-sur-Saône which is about six kilometers out into the plain. To the north, across the River Dheune, lies the Côte de Beaune. To the south is the Mâconnais. The grapes of the region are predominantly Pinot noir and Chardonnay with some Aligoté and Gamay also grown in vineyards spread over a stretch of 25 kilometers long and 7 kilometers wide of undulating land in which vineyards are interspersed with orchards and other forms of farming. The wine-producing communes of the Côte Chalonnaise are, from the north: Bouzeron, the only communal AOC for Aligoté still wine; Rully, which has 23 premier cru vineyards and is known for its white wines as well as being a center for Crémant sparkling wines production; Mercurey, which with 30 premier cru vineyards is the largest volume producer of the region, its wines being nearly all red; Givry, with 17 premier cru vineyards producing mostly red wines; and Montagny, which produces only white wines in its 49 premier cru vineyards.

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Protection

L'église fait l'objet d'un classement au titre des monuments historiques depuis un arrêté du 10 septembre 1913.

Historique

La construction de l'église a débuté dans la première moitié du XIIIe siècle et s’est terminée au XVIe par l’agrandissement de la nef voûtée en croisée d’ogives et la reprise de son clocher à quatre pignons percés sur deux étages de baies géminées plein cintre sur chaque face.

Culte

Édifice consacré du diocèse d'Autun relevant de la paroisse Saint-Symphorien-en-Côte-chalonnaise (siège à Givry) – qui en est affectataire au titre de la loi de 1905 –, l'église de Touches (Mercurey) est, plusieurs siècles après sa construction, un lieu de culte catholique.