Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martial
Gentioux-Pigerolles, Creuse, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise de Gentioux : inscription par arrêté du 15 juin 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/06/15 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle, 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- Gentioux
- Commune
- Gentioux-Pigerolles
- Département
- Creuse
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.78481, 1.99360
- Mérimée reference
- PA00100077
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 1753 map "Marche, Limosin, Auvergne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise rectangulaire à quatre travées dont la dernière forme choeur. Chapiteaux polygonaux à corbeilles sculptées de fleurs et d'animaux. Clocher moderne ayant remplacé un clocher-mur. Portail à trois voussures, arc brisé, chapiteaux à crochets et masques humains, tailloirs formant frise.
English translation
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History
Rectangular church with four bays, the last of which forms the choir. Polygonal capitals with corbels carved with flowers and animals. Modern bell tower having replaced a wall bell tower. Portal with three mouldings, pointed arch, capitals with crockets and human masks, abaci forming a frieze.
Nearby in the register
- Monument aux mortsmonument aux mortsunder 1 mi
- Monument funéraire de la famille Cacaudmonumentunder 1 mi
- Maison de notaire royal, sise au village de Palliermaison2 mi
- Église Sainte-Madeleine de Pallieréglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.