Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Pierre
Martres, 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
- Martres
- Département
- Gironde
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.71018, -0.16879
- Mérimée reference
- PA00083621
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Eglise comprenant une abside, un choeur, une nef plus large. Abside et choeur sont voûtés ; la nef est lambrissée. A l'ouest, porte romane avec colonnettes à chapiteaux historiés. Au-dessus, clocher arcade. Une partie du mur nord a été refaite. Des échauguettes ont été construites sans doute au 16e siècle.
English translation
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History
Church comprising an apse, a choir, a wider nave. Apse and choir are vaulted; the nave is panelled. To the west, Romanesque door with colonettes with historiated capitals. Above, arcade bell tower. Part of the north wall was remade. Turrets were built probably in the 16th century.
Nearby in the register
- Égliseégliseunder 1 mi
- Ancienne église Sainte-Présentineégliseunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Martinéglise1 mi
- Église Saint-Sulpiceéglise1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.