Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martial
Contigny, Allier, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 13 juin 1927
- Protection dates
- 1927/06/13 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 11e siècle, 12e siècle, 15e siècle
- Later work
- 19e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Contigny
- Département
- Allier
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.35228, 3.30410
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093068
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1632 map "Carte du Pais de Bourbonois." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise romane comportant primitivement une seule nef de trois travées, voûtées, avec adjonction au 12e siècle de deux bas-côtés, voûtés d'arètes et, au 15e siècle, d'une chapelle au midi. En 1861, des travaux furent exécutés pour la construction d'une travée supplémentaire à l'ouest. Le portail a été conservé et rapporté au devant de la nouvelle travée. Le clocher est de plan carré et comprend, à l'étage et sur chacune de ses faces, deux fenêtres composées de deux arcatures géminées sur colonnette centrale.
English translation
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History
Romanesque church originally comprising a single nave of three vaulted bays, with the addition in the 12th century of two aisles, vaulted with groin vaults, and in the 15th century, of a chapel to the south. In 1861, works were carried out for the construction of an additional bay to the west. The portal was preserved and placed in front of the new bay. The bell tower is square in plan and comprises, at the storey level and on each of its faces, two windows composed of two geminate arcatures on a central column.
Nearby in the register
- Château du Voussetchâteau1 mi
- Château des Echerolleschâteau2 mi
- Ancienne église paroissiale Notre-Dame-sur-l'Eauéglise3 mi
- Maison à étage à pans de boismaison3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.