Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martin de Vertou
Saché, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. AX 63) : inscription par arrêté du 12 mars 1935
- Protection dates
- 1935/03/12 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saché
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.24670, 0.54381
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098053
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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
La grande nef ainsi que le clocher au sud ont été construits au 12e siècle. L'église a été agrandie au 15e siècle par l'adjonction d'une nef latérale côté nord. Au 16e siècle a été ajouté, au sud de la grande nef, une petite chapelle placée entre le clocher et le sanctuaire. L'intérieur de l'église a subi des transformations importantes, surtout au moment de l'adjonction de la nef latérale. A l'intérieur du clocher existe une amorse de tourelle à pans qui contient un escalier à vis en pierre. Au-dessus et contre les parois intérieures du clocher subsistent des restes de moulures romanes. La façade côté ouest se prolonge par un porche en charpente, de construction assez ancienne.
English translation
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History
The great nave as well as the bell tower on the south were built in the 12th century. The church was enlarged in the 15th century by the addition of a lateral nave on the north side. In the 16th century there was added, to the south of the great nave, a small chapel placed between the bell tower and the sanctuary. The interior of the church underwent important transformations, especially at the time of the addition of the lateral nave. Inside the bell tower there exists the beginning of a polygonal turret containing a stone spiral staircase. Above and against the interior walls of the bell tower remain remnants of Romanesque mouldings. The façade on the west side is extended by a wooden porch of fairly ancient construction.
Nearby in the register
- Ancienne auberge à pans de boisaubergeunder 1 mi
- Maison à pans de boismaisonunder 1 mi
- Château, actuellement Musée Balzacchâteauunder 1 mi
- Château de Valesnechâteauunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.