Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église communale Saint-Martin
Epineuil-le-Fleuriel, Cher, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise communale (cad. AB 156) : inscription par arrêté du 17 septembre 1986
- Protection dates
- 1986/09/17 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- place de l'Eglise
- Commune
- Epineuil-le-Fleuriel
- Département
- Cher
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.55783, 2.58195
- Mérimée reference
- PA00096796
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 1632 map "Carte du Pais de Bourbonois." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'église fut probablement bâtie à la fin du 12e siècle. La partie occidentale et la nef peuvent remonter à cette époque. Le choeur a dû être agrandi au 17e siècle, et le lanternon qui coiffe la tour-clocher ajouté. Située près du château, cette ancienne chapelle castrale remplaça peut-être l'église paroissiale primitive après sa démolition à la fin du 17e siècle.
English translation
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History
The church was probably built at the end of the 12th century. The western part and the nave may date from this period. The chancel must have been enlarged in the 17th century, and the lantern which crowns the bell tower-tower added. Situated near the castle, this former castle chapel perhaps replaced the primitive parish church after its demolition at the end of the 17th century.
Nearby in the register
- Motte castrale avec son fosséédifice fortifiéunder 1 mi
- Ecoleécoleunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Blaiseéglise2 mi
- Château de Cornançaychâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.