Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martin
Abilly, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- L'abside et le transept : inscription par arrêté du 14 septembre 1949
- Protection dates
- 1949/09/14 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 15e siècle, 19e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Abilly
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.94054, 0.72653
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097501
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 1592 map "Topographia Aug. Turon Ducatus et confinium Gallia Cestica ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Edifice fondé par les barons de la Haye. Du 11e siècle, subsiste l'absidiole nord qui était probablement l'abside primitive. Le reste appartient au 12e siècle, hormis une chapelle seigneuriale, adjonction du 15e siècle. Le plan semble indiquer une construction en deux étapes, la nef étant trop grande par rapport au choeur. Le transept a sa croisée couverte d'une coupole sur trompes limitée par quatre arcades en plein cintre. Les croisillons possèdent chacun une absidiole plein cintre.
English translation
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History
Edifice founded by the barons of La Haye. From the 11th century, remains the north apse which was probably the primitive apse. The rest belongs to the 12th century, except for a seigneurial chapel, an addition of the 15th century. The plan seems to indicate construction in two stages, the nave being too large in relation to the choir. The transept has its crossing covered with a dome on squinches limited by four round-arch arcades. The transept arms each have a round-arch apse.
Nearby in the register
- Manoir de La Châtièremanoir1 mi
- Château de la Chaisechâteau2 mi
- Châteauchâteau2 mi
- Maison natale de Descartes, actuellement Musée Descartesmaison3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.