Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martin
Fontenilles, Haute-Garonne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise Saint-Martin (cad. E 359) : inscription par arrêté du 25 juin 1979
- Protection dates
- 1979/06/25 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Dates
- 1516, 1542
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Fontenilles
- Département
- Haute-Garonne
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.55270, 1.19219
- Mérimée reference
- PA00094331
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDigital Commonwealth, Boston Public LibraryIGN France — Géoportail
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1706 map "Le Diocese de Toulouse" (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Edifice gothique très restauré, de plan en croix latine avec chevet à trois pans. Bandeaux sculptés aux colonnes des chapelles (pampres, écussons, figures humaines). Clocher pignon à cinq baies en plein cintre. L'ancienne église appartenait au 14e siècle au chapitre Saint-Etienne. Portail roman.
English translation
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History
Highly restored Gothic building, with Latin cross plan and chevet with three panels. Sculpted bands on the columns of the chapels (vine leaves, escutcheons, human figures). Porch tower with five round arch openings. The former church belonged in the 14th century to the chapter of Saint-Etienne. Romanesque portal.
Nearby in the register
- Hallehalle3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.