Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martin
Ligueil, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Le choeur : inscription par arrêté du 12 juin 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/06/12 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Ligueil
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.04361, 0.81838
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097813
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
En dehors de l'abside, le reste de l'édifice a conservé des fragments allant du 12e au 15e siècle, mais très remaniés au 19e, avec des adjonctions modernes telles que le clocher, la façade d'entrée, les faces extérieures des transepts... L'abside, composée de six voûtes d'arête, appartient aux 12e et 14e siècles.
English translation
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History
Outside the apse, the rest of the building has retained fragments ranging from the 12th to the 15th century, but heavily altered in the 19th, with modern additions such as the bell tower, the entrance façade, the exterior faces of the transepts... The apse, composed of six groin vaults, belongs to the 12th and 14th centuries.
Nearby in the register
- Maison du 15e siècle, dite de Saint-Louismaisonunder 1 mi
- Château d'Epignychâteau1 mi
- Manoir de la Roche-de-Gennesmanoir2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.