Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martin
Ussel, Corrèze, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Transept et choeur : inscription par arrêté du 9 décembre 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/12/09 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle, 15e siècle, 19e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Ussel
- Département
- Corrèze
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.54703, 2.30919
- Mérimée reference
- PA00099938
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Marche, Limosin, Auvergne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Edifice de la fin du 13e siècle, composé d'une nef avec transept et choeur à chevet plat. A l'origine, l'édifice présentait une nef de deux travées carrées voûtées d'ogives, un transept, un choeur et deux petites chapelles sur les bras du transept. Après un incendie en 1472, deux bas-côtés furent ajoutés, ainsi qu'une petite chapelle à l'extrémité nord du transept. En 1862, Viollet-le-Duc restaura l'église et construisit un clocher porche.
English translation
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History
Edifice of the end of the 13th century, composed of a nave with transept and choir with flat chevet. Originally, the edifice presented a nave of two square bays vaulted with ribs, a transept, a choir and two small chapels on the transept arms. After a fire in 1472, two aisles were added, as well as a small chapel at the north end of the transept. In 1862, Viollet-le-Duc restored the church and built a porch tower.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.