Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martin
Gouzon, Creuse, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 1er mai 1933
- Protection dates
- 1933/05/01 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Gouzon
- Département
- Creuse
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.19207, 2.23966
- Mérimée reference
- PA00100083
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 1762 map "12 Evaux." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La construction de l'édifice paraît remonter à l'époque romane, mais il ne subsiste de cette époque que l'abside en cul-de-four. Le reste de l'édifice est formé de trois travées voûtées d'ogives. Ces travées et les portails semblent appartenir à la première moitié du 13e siècle. Les deux portails présentent une mouluration assez riche. Le portail ouest est surmonté d'une rose. A l'intérieur, la clé de voûte de la première travée est ornée d'une Vierge assise portant l'Enfant Jésus et tenant un lis. Près de la porte principale, une cuve octogonale, creusée en forme de pétales de fleur, sert de bénitier.
English translation
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History
The construction of the building appears to date back to the Romanesque period, but only the cul-de-four apse remains from this period. The rest of the building is formed of three bays vaulted with ribs. These bays and the portals appear to belong to the first half of the 13th century. The two portals present fairly rich mouluration. The west portal is surmounted by a rose. Inside, the keystone of the first bay is decorated with a seated Virgin bearing the Christ Child and holding a lily. Near the main door, an octagonal basin, carved in the form of flower petals, serves as a holy water stoup.
Nearby in the register
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Nicolas des Forgeséglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.