Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martin
Saint-Martin-de-Gurson, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- L'église : classement par arrêté du 11 décembre 1912
- Protection dates
- 1912/12/11 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Martin-de-Gurson
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.95201, 0.10787
- Mérimée reference
- PA00082871
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1766 map "71 Bergerac." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Edifice se rattachant au type roman du Périgord. La façade est percée d'un large portail en voussure et est décorée d'arcatures aveugles. L'abside est voûtée en cul de four, le choeur et la nef en berceau plein cintre. Au centre de l'édifice s'élève un petit clocher carré au-dessus d'une travée voûtée d'une coupole sur pendentifs de forme elliptique.
English translation
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History
Building belonging to the Romanesque type of Périgord. The façade is pierced by a large portal with voussure and is decorated with blind arcading. The apse is vaulted in a barrel vault, the choir and the nave in barrel vault with round arch. At the centre of the building rises a small square bell tower above a bay vaulted with a dome on pendentives of elliptical form.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Pierre de Carsacégliseunder 1 mi
- Ruines du château de Gurconchâteau2 mi
- Mairiemaison2 mi
- Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomptionéglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.