Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martin
Touchay, Cher, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. AB 248) : inscription par arrêté du 24 février 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/02/24 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 2e moitié 15e siècle, 19e siècle
- Dates
- 1860
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Touchay
- Département
- Cher
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.71226, 2.21070
- Mérimée reference
- PA00096915
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1665 map "Bitvricvm Dvcatvs Dvche De Berri" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'édifice date, dans son ensemble, de la seconde moitié du 15e siècle. Il comprend une nef couverte par une charpente apparente ; un choeur à chevet carré voûté en ogive sur nervures ; sur la face nord du choeur, une chapelle voûtée de même, ainsi qu'une autre chapelle sur la face sud du choeur et qui paraît avoir été construite au 16e siècle par les seigneurs de la Châtre. Cette dernière chapelle est voûtée en berceau plein cintre. La façade surmontée d'un clocher de charpente date de 1860. Le vitrail qui garnit la fenêtre du chevet de la chapelle sud conserve quelques fragments appartenant au 16e siècle.
English translation
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History
The building dates, as a whole, from the second half of the 15th century. It comprises a nave covered by exposed roof structure; a choir with a square chevet vaulted with ogives on ribs; on the north face of the choir, a chapel vaulted in the same manner, as well as another chapel on the south face of the choir which appears to have been built in the 16th century by the lords of la Châtre. This latter chapel is vaulted with a round-arch barrel vault. The façade surmounted by a wooden bell tower dates from 1860. The stained glass which fills the window of the chevet of the south chapel preserves some fragments belonging to the 16th century.
Nearby in the register
- Château de l'Isle-sur-Arnonchâteauunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Martin-et-Saint-Rochéglise1 mi
- Église Saint-Hilaireéglise2 mi
- Château du Plaixchâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.