Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martin
Poussignac, Lot-et-Garonne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 20 mars 1929
- Protection dates
- 1929/03/20 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Poussignac
- Département
- Lot-et-Garonne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.34696, 0.05592
- Mérimée reference
- PA00084211
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1783 map "72 Castillonez, Velleneuve, La Reole." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'église se compose d'une nef de deux travées et d'un choeur carré, flanqués d'un bas-côté de même plan. Les chevets sont plats et percés de fenêtres aux remplages flamboyants. Le choeur est voûté en étoile à cinq clefs, tandis que les travées de la nef principale ont des voûtes en étoile à quatre clefs. Le clocher arcade s'élève sur le mur ouest.
English translation
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History
The church consists of a nave of two bays and a square choir, flanked by an aisle of the same plan. The chevets are flat and pierced with windows with flamboyant tracery. The choir is vaulted in star vault with five keystones, while the bays of the main nave have star vaults with four keystones. The arcade bell tower rises on the west wall.
Nearby in the register
- Monument aux morts de la guerre 1914-1918monument aux morts3 mi
- Château de Lacazechâteau3 mi
- Maison à pans de boismaison3 mi
- Ancien couvent des Cordelierscouvent3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.