Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martin
Séniergues, Lot, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise Saint-Martin (cad. C 156) : classement par arrêté du 7 août 1974
- Protection dates
- 1974/08/07 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Séniergues
- Département
- Lot
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.69938, 1.54621
- Mérimée reference
- PA00095259
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 1637 map "Aquitania" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise romane du 12e siècle, fortifiée au 14e par surélévation des murs, incendiée pendant les guerres de Religion. Portail latéral en plein cintre, reconstruit vers 1830. L'édifice sur plan cruciforme, avec abside circulaire dont les contreforts supportent une surélévation de plan polygonal. L'abside est voûtée en cul de four. La croisée du transept est couverte d'une coupole octogonale sur pendentif.
English translation
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History
Romanesque church of the 12th century, fortified in the 14th by raising the walls, burnt during the Wars of Religion. Lateral portal in round arch, rebuilt around 1830. The edifice on cruciform plan, with circular apse whose buttresses support a raised section of polygonal plan. The apse is vaulted with an apse vault. The crossing of the transept is covered with an octagonal dome on pendentive.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.