Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martin
Gardegan-et-Tourtirac, Gironde, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 21 novembre 1925
- Protection dates
- 1925/11/21 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Gardegan-et-Tourtirac
- Département
- Gironde
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.90062, -0.01911
- Mérimée reference
- PA00083557
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1693 map "Governo Generale della Guienna" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Edifice du type des églises romanes de Charente, comprenant sur la façade un portail unique couronné d'une rangée d'arcatures en applique. Le clocher, dont le couronnement a été modifié, s'élève suivant une disposition usitée en Aquitaine au 12e siècle, sur la travée précédant le choeur. La nef est voûtée en berceau sur arcs doubleaux. La voûte est en arc brisé tandis que l'arc triomphal est en plein cintre.
English translation
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History
Edifice of the type of Romanesque churches of Charente, comprising on the façade a single portal crowned with a row of applied arcatures. The bell tower, whose crown has been modified, rises according to an arrangement used in Aquitaine in the 12th century, on the bay preceding the choir. The nave is vaulted in barrel vault on double arches. The vault is in pointed arch while the triumphal arch is in round arch.
Nearby in the register
- Château de Pitraychâteauunder 1 mi
- Dolmendolmenunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Pierre de Tourtiracégliseunder 1 mi
- Menhir de Clottemenhir1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.