Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martial
Dirac, Charente, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise Saint-Martial : classement par arrêté du 10 février 1913
- Protection dates
- 1913/02/10 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Dirac
- Département
- Charente
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.60561, 0.24893
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104356
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 1777 map "69 Angouleme." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise romane du 12e siècle présentant une façade composée de deux séries d'arcades superposées. La nef est voûtée en berceau plein cintre. La travée d'avant-choeur est voûtée en coupole et surmontée d'un clocher sur plan carré. Abside voûtée en cul de four. Deux chapelles latérales formant transept furent ajoutées à la fin du 15e siècle.
English translation
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History
Romanesque church of the 12th century presenting a façade composed of two series of superimposed arcades. The nave is vaulted with a barrel vault on round arch. The bay before the choir is vaulted with a cupola and surmounted by a bell tower on a square plan. Apse vaulted with a cul-de-four. Two lateral chapels forming a transept were added at the end of the 15th century.
Nearby in the register
- Château de la Tranchadechâteauunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Pierre-aux-Lienséglise2 mi
- Logis de Nanteuilmaison3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.