Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martin
Compreignac, Haute-Vienne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : classement par arrêté du 9 avril 1910
- Protection dates
- 1910/04/09 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Compreignac
- Département
- Haute-Vienne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.99269, 1.27444
- Mérimée reference
- PA00100286
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1703 map "Map of the Geography of Ancient France). (continued.)" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise à une nef et deux transepts du 12e siècle, voûtée au 15e, à nervures reposant sur les anciennes colonnes du 12e. L'intérieur a été remanié. L'extérieur a été renforcé de mâchicoulis de défense ajoutés au 15e siècle.
English translation
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History
Church with a single nave and two transepts of the 12th century, vaulted in the 15th, with ribs resting on the old columns of the 12th century. The interior was reworked. The exterior was reinforced with machicolations of defence added in the 15th century.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.