Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Sainte-Catherine
Saint-Martin-Sainte-Catherine, Creuse, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- L'église en totalité (cad. AB 147) : classement par arrêté du 8 novembre 2004
- Protection dates
- 2004/11/08 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 4e quart 15e siècle, 1er quart 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- Saint-Martin
- Commune
- Saint-Martin-Sainte-Catherine
- Département
- Creuse
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.96147, 1.57597
- Mérimée reference
- PA00100176
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 1753 map "Marche, Limosin, Auvergne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Edifice à nef unique et chevet plat, divisé en quatre travées, avec deux chapelles latérales formant faux transept. La porte occidentale, en plein cintre, est à ressauts ornés de deux tores dont la partie inférieure, formant colonnette, a disparu. Cette façade ainsi que la première travée doivent dater du 12e siècle. Le reste de l'église a été reconstruit avec un voûtement d'ogives caractéristique du 15e siècle. Des contreforts d'angles sont caractéristiques de la fin du Moyen-Age. A l'intérieur, la voûte est peinte d'un décor de faux appareil et de figures d'anges. Sur les murs gouttereaux de ce choeur se voient deux frises de saints personnages, identifiés comme les apôtres.
English translation
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History
Edifice with single nave and flat chevet, divided into four bays, with two lateral chapels forming a false transept. The western door, in round arch, has setbacks adorned with two tori whose lower part, forming a small column, has disappeared. This façade as well as the first bay must date from the 12th century. The rest of the church was rebuilt with a rib vaulting characteristic of the 15th century. Corner buttresses are characteristic of the end of the Middle Ages. Inside, the vault is painted with a decoration of false ashlar and figures of angels. On the gutter walls of this choir are seen two friezes of sainted figures, identified as the apostles.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.