Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martin
Nouans-les-Fontaines, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 12 juin 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/06/12 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Nouans-les-Fontaines
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.13653, 1.29830
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097897
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
L'église se compose d'une nef simple couverte de voûtes sexpartites avec alternance de piles fortes et faibles. Amorcées au 13e siècle, les voûtes ont été faites au 15e. L'influence semble venir d'Ile-de-France.
English translation
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History
The church consists of a single nave covered with sexpartite vaults with alternation of strong and weak piers. Begun in the 13th century, the vaults were made in the 15th. The influence appears to come from Ile-de-France.