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Église Saint-Martin

Ligré, Indre-et-Loire, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Eglise (à l'exception de la nef) (cad. C 418) : inscription par arrêté du 18 juin 1962
Protection dates
1962/06/18 : inscrit MH
Type
église
Main period of construction
12e siècle
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Lieu-dit
le Bourg
Commune
Ligré
Département
Indre-et-Loire
Region
Centre-Val de Loire
Country
France
Coordinates
47.11177, 0.27535
Mérimée reference
PA00097809

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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).

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Eglise ayant appartenu à l'abbaye de Cormery selon une bulle de 1180. La nef, détruite par un incendie en 1876, a été reconstruite. A la suite de la nef moderne, le transept a sa croisée voûtée d'une coupole sur trompes. Les croisillons sont accompagnés chacun d'une absidiole voûtée en cul de four. L'abside semi circulaire voûtée en cul de four termine l'église. Le clocher domine la croisée du transept et a été reconstruit en partie au 15e siècle.

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Church which belonged to the abbey of Cormery according to a papal bull of 1180. The nave, destroyed by fire in 1876, was rebuilt. Following the modern nave, the transept has its crossing vaulted with a dome on squinches. The transept arms are each accompanied by an absidiole vaulted in apse vault. The semi-circular apse vaulted in apse vault terminates the church. The bell tower dominates the crossing of the transept and was partly rebuilt in the 15th century.

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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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