Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martin
Montlouis, Cher, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. ZM 22) : inscription par arrêté du 2 mars 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/03/02 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- le Bourg
- Commune
- Montlouis
- Département
- Cher
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.81445, 2.24039
- Mérimée reference
- PA00096849
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 LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
Le plan se compose d'une nef sans bas-côtés et d'un choeur à chevet plat. Clocher latéral au sud. Nef et choeur voûtés sur berceau. Clocher voûté d'ogives aux angles abattus, du 13e siècle. Portail placé dans un bahut. Chapiteaux sculptés.
English translation
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History
The plan comprises a nave without aisles and a choir with flat chevet. Lateral bell tower to the south. Nave and choir vaulted with barrel vault. Bell tower with rib vault at cut angles, of the 13th century. Doorway placed in a chest. Sculpted capitals.
Nearby in the register
- Maison de Varennesmaison1 mi
- Église Saint-Denis de Condééglise2 mi
- Château du Plessischâteau2 mi
- Église du prieuré Saint-Germain de La Celleéglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.