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Saint-Maurice Church of Huismes

Saint-Maurice Church of Huismes

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Saint-Maurice Church of Huismes

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Location: Huismes, Chinon, Centre-Val de Loire, France

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🇧🇪 Herwig Aertbeliën

June 9, 2025

The parish church of Saint-Maurice and the covered passage connecting it to the residence known as the Deanery and the garden of the former presbytery, located on the site known as Le Bourg.

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A 12th-century building whose nave was restored in the 19th century and an aisle was added. The west façade is distinguished by the fact that it is connected by a 16th-century covered gallery, which spans the street, to a former manor house opposite, known as the Doyenné. The bell tower consists of a powerful square tower, flanked on the north side by a staircase turret, which is pierced in the floor of the bell tower by two pointed arch bays with double archivolts. This tower rises above the bay forming the choir and is supported by pointed arch arcades, formed by concentric arches of rectangular cross-section, which frame a square bay with ribbed vaults. The capitals are decorated with foliage, hooks, signs or fantastic animals.

Source: pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/merimee/PA00097778

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Pussy et Gégé

November 10, 2020

Huismes was called in the 10th century, Oximensis Villa, and Oxima in the 11th century. The alleged resemblance between this last term and “octava” gave rise to the legend which reports that Saint Gatien founded in Huismes the eighth church built by him in Touraine.
The choir, dating from the 12th century, has been classified as a historic monument since 1913. The bell tower is built on a massive square tower, the base of which is Romanesque, the upper part dates from the 13th century. The covered passage known as the deanery dates from the 16th century and, like the bell tower, has been listed in the supplementary inventory of historic monuments since 1940.
Dating from the 12th century, with the exception of the nave, restored in the 19th century and increased by an aisle to the north, the church has a belfry bell tower with a cylindrical tower housing a stairwell to access the bells. .
This church was enlarged in the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century by the addition of an aisle, without respecting the harmony of the old building. It nevertheless deserves attention because it includes many details, both historical and architectural. The capitals, supports of the nave and the choir are remarkable. Characters, monsters and animals are represented in symbolic scenes.
This parish formed a castellany which was given by Charles the Simple to the chapter of the church of Tours, a donation which was confirmed in 1157 by Louis VII. The seigniorial residence, known as the Doyenné, was fortified by walls lined with a moat crossed by a drawbridge. In this enclosure were the church and the presbytery. These fortifications, as well as a keep, have disappeared and the buildings of the deanery have been very modernized.

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Saint-Maurice Church of Huismes

1. Vue sur le château d'Ussé – Château d'Ussé loop from Les Plaines des Vaux

2. Forteresse de Chinon – View of Ussé castle loop from Les Plaines des Vaux

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