Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martin
Vallière, Creuse, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 9 août 1942
- Protection dates
- 1942/08/09 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Vallière
- Département
- Creuse
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.90668, 2.03530
- Mérimée reference
- PA00100215
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
Nef composée de cinq travées. Chevet plat. Voûtes sur croisées d'ogives. Trois chapelles ajoutées, dont l'une doit être l'ancienne chapelle sépulcrale de Villeneuve. A l'extérieur, lion accroupi. Construction de granit appareillé.
English translation
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History
Nave composed of five bays. Flat chevet. Vaults on rib crossings. Three added chapels, one of which must be the old sepulchral chapel of Villeneuve. Outside, crouching lion. Construction of dressed granite.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.