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Église Saint-Martial

Lioux-les-Monges, Creuse, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Eglise (cad. A 118) : inscription par arrêté du 2 avril 1969
Protection dates
1969/04/02 : inscrit MH
Type
église
Main period of construction
12e siècle, 14e siècle
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Commune
Lioux-les-Monges
Département
Creuse
Region
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Country
France
Coordinates
45.95179, 2.45608
Mérimée reference
PA00100099

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1763 map "13 Aubusson." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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Le patronage appartenait à l'abbaye bénédictine de Beaumont. La cure fut supprimée à la Révolution, puis rétablie en 1853. L'édifice est formé d'une nef dont la seconde travée s'ouvre sur une petite chapelle aménagée à l'époque moderne entre deux contreforts, et d'une abside semi-circulaire formant le choeur. Chapiteaux sculptés. La façade occidentale est percée d'un portail à l'arc brisé dont les tores sont reçus, par l'intermédiaire d'une frise-chapiteau sculptée sous un tailloir saillant, alternant avec des masques, sur des colonnettes. Accostant ce portail, deux arcades aveugles, sous l'arc brisé desquelles règne une frise-chapiteau prolongeant celle du portail, décorent le mur. Cette façade est surmontée d'un clocher-mur percé de deux baies en plein cintre. Modillons sculptés de masques humains.

English translation

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The patronage belonged to the Benedictine Abbey of Beaumont. The cure was suppressed at the Revolution, then re-established in 1853. The building is formed of a nave of which the second bay opens onto a small chapel arranged in the modern period between two buttresses, and of a semi-circular apse forming the chevet. Sculptured capitals. The western façade is pierced by a portal with a broken arc of which the tori are received, by means of a sculptured frieze-capital under a projecting abacus, alternating with masks, on colonettes. Flanking this portal, two blind arcades, under the broken arc of which extends a frieze-capital prolonging that of the portal, decorate the wall. This façade is surmounted by a porch tower pierced by two round-arch openings. Modillions sculptured with human masks.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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