Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martin
Grailhen, Hautes-Pyrénées, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise Saint-Martin (cad. A 195) : inscription par arrêté du 2 mars 1979
- Protection dates
- 1979/03/02 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 17e siècle, 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Grailhen
- Département
- Hautes-Pyrénées
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 42.84688, 0.36073
- Mérimée reference
- PA00095376
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IGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1765 map "71. Mapa del Reyno de Aragon" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise romane restaurée en style gothique à la fin du 16e siècle et flanquée d'un bas-côté en 1696. Porte avec chrisme et ferrures anciennes. Clocher-pignon à deux baies en plein cintre. Retable du 18e siècle. Edifice typique de la vallée de l'Aure.
English translation
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History
Romanesque church restored in Gothic style at the end of the 16th century and flanked by an aisle in 1696. Door with chi-rho and ancient ironwork. Porch tower with two round-arch openings. Retable of the 18th century. Building typical of the valley of Aure.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Michelégliseunder 1 mi
- Chapelle de l'Invention-de-Saint-Etienne ou Chapelle Saint-Etiennechapelle1 mi
- Chapelle d'Agoschapelle1 mi
- Église Saint-Brice Sainte-Catherineéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.