Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martin
Glénay, Deux-Sèvres, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 11 octobre 1929
- Protection dates
- 1929/10/11 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Glénay
- Département
- Deux-Sèvres
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.86029, -0.25164
- Mérimée reference
- PA00101239
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 1579 map "(28) Andegavensium." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise du 12e siècle, comportant une nef unique avec un transept, une abside circulaire, et deux absidioles circulaires. L'édifice est voûté en berceau. A l'extrémité sud du transept, sous le clocher, portail encadré de colonnes et d'archivoltes décorées.
English translation
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History
Church of the 12th century, comprising a single nave with a transept, a circular apse, and two circular absidioles. The building is vaulted with a barrel vault. At the south end of the transept, beneath the bell tower, portal framed by columns and decorated archvolts.
Nearby in the register
- Châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Vieux Pontpont2 mi
- Chapelle Saint-Guillaumechapelle3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.