Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martin
Albussac, Corrèze, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Choeur et chapelle Nord : inscription par arrêté du 26 janvier 1927
- Protection dates
- 1927/01/26 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Albussac
- Département
- Corrèze
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.13983, 1.83554
- Mérimée reference
- PA00099645
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 1637 map "Aquitania" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'église possède un choeur carré avec chevet plat du 12e siècle. Au centre, fenêtre plein cintre avec deux colonnettes à chapiteaux à feuillages et boudin torique. A droite et à gauche, trois arcatures reposent sur des colonnettes avec chapiteaux à feuillages ou entrelacs. A l'entrée, deux demi-colonnes avec deux chapiteaux ornés de longues feuilles renversées et d'entrelacs. Les chapelles sont des 16e et 17e siècles.
English translation
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History
The church possesses a square choir with flat chevet of the 12th century. In the centre, round-arch window with two small columns with capitals with foliage and toric moulding. On the right and left, three arcatures rest on small columns with foliage or interlace capitals. At the entrance, two half-columns with two capitals decorated with long reversed leaves and interlace. The chapels are of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.