Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Restes de l'ancienne église Saint-Martin
Graçay, Cher, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise Saint-Martin (restes de l'ancienne) (cad. AM 314) : inscription par arrêté du 22 mars 1930
- Protection dates
- 1930/03/22 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- 4 place du Marché
- Commune
- Graçay
- Département
- Cher
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.14280, 1.84561
- Mérimée reference
- PA00096808
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1761 map "10 Bourges." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Cette église faisait partie du prieuré bénédictin de Massay. De l'église, il ne reste que le chevet, incorporé dans une construction abritant un hôtel. Abside polygonale. Colonnes formant contreforts avec chapiteaux épannelés.
English translation
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History
This church was part of the Benedictine priory of Massay. Of the church, only the chevet remains, incorporated into a construction housing a hôtel. Polygonal apse. Columns forming buttresses with carved capitals.
Nearby in the register
- Église Notre-Dameégliseunder 1 mi
- Église collégiale Saint-Austrégésileégliseunder 1 mi
- Château de Coulonchâteau1 mi
- Dolmen, dit La Pierre Levée ou La Grosse Pierredolmen2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.