Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martin
Marthon, Charente, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 15 mai 1925
- Protection dates
- 1925/05/15 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Marthon
- Département
- Charente
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.61377, 0.44271
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104414
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
L'abside et l'absidiole forment un ensemble très irrégulier. Le clocher carré se compose de deux étages. La croisée de la nef et du transept est voûtée en coupole. Le transept est voûté en berceau. La voûte de la nef se compose de chevrons cintrés formant arc surbaissé, sur lesquels on a plafonné directement. L'entrée est percée dans le mur sud. La façade occidentale n'a aucune ouverture. Elle est surmontée d'un grand pignon et décorée de deux étages d'arcades aveugles superposées.
English translation
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History
The chevet and the absidiole form a very irregular ensemble. The square bell tower comprises two storeys. The crossing of the nave and the transept is vaulted with a dome. The transept is vaulted with a barrel vault. The vault of the nave consists of curved rafters forming a depressed arch, on which the ceiling was directly laid. The entrance is pierced in the south wall. The western façade has no opening. It is surmounted by a large gable and decorated with two storeys of superimposed blind arcades.
Nearby in the register
- Vieille Tourédifice fortifiéunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Germainéglise1 mi
- Prieuré Saint-Sylvestre-de-Saint-Sauveurprieuré1 mi
- Église Saint-Pierreéglise1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.