Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martin
Mercoeur, Corrèze, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 26 janvier 1927
- Protection dates
- 1927/01/26 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 11e siècle, 15e siècle, 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Mercoeur
- Département
- Corrèze
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.01518, 1.94688
- Mérimée reference
- PA00099801
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1783 map "15 Aurillac." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'histoire rapporte qu'une première église dont il ne reste pas de traces fut édifiée au 11e siècle par les Scorailles. L'édifice actuel se compose d'un choeur du 15e siècle à cinq pans, couvert de voûtes nervées avec liernes et tiercerons, et d'une nef unique paraissant dater du 17e siècle.
English translation
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History
History reports that a first church of which no traces remain was built in the 11th century by the Scorailles. The present building consists of a choir of the 15th century with five bays, covered with rib vaults with liernes and tiercerons, and a single nave appearing to date from the 17th century.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.