Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martin
Lacs, Indre, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : classement par arrêté du 1er septembre 1922
- Protection dates
- 1922/09/01 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- Moyen Age
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Lacs
- Département
- Indre
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.58497, 2.02617
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097366
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1707 map "La Province de Berry. La Generalite de Bourges." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise romane à nef unique voûtée en berceau plein cintre, séparée du choeur par deux colonnes portant un épais doubleau. Le choeur présente une abside demi-circulaire. Le clocher est accolé au sud du choeur. De plan presque carré, il est percé, sur les faces de deux étages, d'arcatures géminées séparées par de fines colonnettes. La façade est ornée d'un petit porche dont l'arc est légèrement brisé.
English translation
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History
Romanesque church with a single nave vaulted with a round barrel vault, separated from the choir by two columns bearing a thick doubleau. The choir presents a semi-circular apse. The bell tower is attached to the south of the choir. Almost square in plan, it is pierced, on the faces of two storeys, with twin arcatures separated by fine small columns. The facade is ornamented with a small porch whose arch is slightly pointed.
Nearby in the register
- Château d'Arschâteau2 mi
- Monument au pilote d'avion et de course automobile André Boillotmonument2 mi
- Pont, dit Pont aux laiespont2 mi
- Prieuré de Cosnayprieuré2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.