Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martin
Orx, Landes, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. D 91) : inscription par arrêté du 31 janvier 1972
- Protection dates
- 1972/01/31 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 15e siècle, 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Orx
- Département
- Landes
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.60289, -1.36958
- Mérimée reference
- PA00083992
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 Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1771 map "139 Bayonne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'entrée se fait par un clocher porche comportant une tribune. La nef est séparée d'un bas-côté par quatre arcades dont les colonnes présentent des chapiteaux à personnages du 15e siècle. Des fragments de fresques ont été trouvés sur partie de l'intrados de l'arc triomphal. Le choeur est orné de trois arcatures aveugles reposant sur quatre colonnes engagées qui supportent des chapiteaux sculptés. Le clocher carré date du début du 18e siècle.
English translation
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History
The entrance is by a porch tower with a gallery. The nave is separated from an aisle by four arcades whose columns have 15th-century figured capitals. Fragments of frescoes have been found on part of the intrados of the triumphal arch. The choir is adorned with three blind arcatures resting on four engaged columns which support sculpted capitals. The square bell tower dates from the early 18th century.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.