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Église Saint-Martin-de-Noizé

Oiron, Deux-Sèvres, France

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Designation
Historic monument, classified (classé)
Protection
classé MH
Extent of protection
Eglise Saint-Martin-de-Noizé (cad. A 47) : classement par arrêté du 7 décembre 1976
Protection dates
1976/12/07 : classé MH
Type
église
Main period of construction
12e siècle
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Lieu-dit
Noizé
Commune
Oiron
Département
Deux-Sèvres
Region
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Country
France
Coordinates
46.90263, -0.09027
Mérimée reference
PA00101297

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1579 map "(28) Andegavensium." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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Cette église, construite au 12e siècle, aurait appartenu à un prieuré relevant de l'abbaye de Bourgueil. La tradition locale prétend que, lors de son passage dans la région, saint Martin aurait transformé à cette place un temple païen en un lieu de culte chrétien. A l'ouest, l'édifice s'ouvre par un porche couvert d'une charpente qui repose sur quatre piliers carrés et qui s'adosse au mur de la nef unique, terminée à l'est par un large fronton plat et surmontée d'un clocher en forme de pomme de pin. Les faces est et ouest de ce clocher sont percées de deux arcades ; les faces nord et sud d'une seule. Elles sont surmontées de petites lucarnes. A l'intérieur, la nef unique est séparée du choeur par un mur percé de deux grandes arcades plein cintre. Le dallage comporte des dalles funéraires du 17e siècle.

English translation

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This church, built in the 12th century, is said to have belonged to a priory dependent on the abbey of Bourgueil. Local tradition claims that, during his passage through the region, Saint Martin transformed a pagan temple into a place of Christian worship at this location. On the west side, the building opens through a porch covered with a roof structure that rests on four square pillars and which is set against the wall of the single nave, terminated to the east by a large flat gable and surmounted by a bell tower in the shape of a pine cone. The east and west faces of this bell tower are pierced by two arcades; the north and south faces by only one. They are surmounted by small dormers. Inside, the single nave is separated from the choir by a wall pierced by two large round arches. The flooring contains funerary slabs from the 17th century.

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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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