Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martin
Vindrac-Alayrac, Tarn, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : classement par arrêté du 28 octobre 1927
- Protection dates
- 1927/10/28 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle, 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Vindrac-Alayrac
- Département
- Tarn
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.06660, 1.91252
- Mérimée reference
- PA00095659
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IGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Aquitaniae descriptio" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Edifice bâti au 15e siècle, possédant un clocher à base carrée sur laquelle furent construits, au 16e siècle, deux étages octogonaux en pierre de taille qui offrent la particularité d'avoir les piles du second étage montées à l'aplomb des baies de l'étage inférieur, les arêtes restant au même emplacement en plan. La nef se termine par un choeur polygonal. Les fenêtres ont conservé leurs meneaux à claire-voies. Clefs et culs de lampe sont ornés de feuillages, d'armoiries et d'inscriptions. Les peintures intérieures datent du 19e siècle.
English translation
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History
Building constructed in the 15th century, possessing a bell tower with square base upon which were built, in the 16th century, two octagonal storeys in ashlar which have the particularity of having the piers of the second storey mounted directly above the openings of the lower storey, the angles remaining in the same position in plan. The nave ends in a polygonal choir. The windows have retained their open-work mullions. Keystones and corbels are ornamented with foliage, coats of arms and inscriptions. The interior paintings date from the 19th century.
Nearby in the register
- Pont dit Pont des Anes (également sur commune des Cabannes)pontunder 1 mi
- Croix de chemin au hameau des Farguescroix de cheminunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Antoineéglise1 mi
- Croix en fer forgécroix monumentale1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.