Église Saint-Pierre de Balesmes

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L'église Saint-Pierre de Balesmes est une église catholique située dans l'ancienne commune de Balesmes, dans le département français d'Indre-et-Loire en région Centre-Val de Loire. Elle est située place Pierre-Bérégovoy, au lieu-dit Balesmes dont elle a pris le nom.

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Descartes, Indre-et-Loire

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Notre-Dame de La Haye Church

Notre-Dame de La Haye is a former parish church in the town of Descartes, in the French department of Indre-et-Loire. The church, a former castral chapel founded in the Romanesque period but enlarged in the Gothic style, became a parish church. It retained this status until the French Revolution, when it was sold as national property. Converted into a barn, its condition gradually deteriorated. Restoration work began in the 1980s, and the church was listed as a historic monument in 1981 and again in 1994.

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Saint-Rémy-sur-Creuse

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Historique

Construite au XIe siècle, elle est agrandie au XIe siècle et restaurée au XVIIIe siècle. L'église est classée au titre des monuments historiques par arrêté du 7 mai 1908.

Description

Le porche date du XVIIIe siècle. Les voûtes de l'absides sont formées d'ogives tandis que celles des absidioles sont en demi-coupoles. Certains des vitraux viennent de l'atelier de Tours. Son plan en croix latine à nef unique est caractéristique des églises romanes de la région.

Bibliographie

Jean-Mary Couderc (dir.), Dictionnaire des communes de Touraine, Chambray-lès-Tours, CLD, 1987, 967 p. (ISBN 2-8544-3136-7). Jean-Luc Flohic (dir.), Patrimoine des communes d'Indre-et-Loire, t. I, Paris, Flohic, 2001, 1408 p. (ISBN 2-8423-4115-5). Robert Ranjard, La Touraine archéologique : guide du touriste en Indre-et-Loire, Mayenne, Imprimerie de la Manutention, 1949 (réimpr. 1986), 3e éd., 733 p. (ISBN 2-8555-4017-8).