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Église Saint-Martin

Moings, Charente-Maritime, France

The record

Designation
Historic monument, classified (classé)
Protection
classé MH
Extent of protection
Eglise : classement par arrêté du 17 août 1945
Protection dates
1945/08/17 : classé MH
Type
église
Main period of construction
12e siècle
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Commune
Moings
Département
Charente-Maritime
Region
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Country
France
Coordinates
45.47892, -0.35998
Mérimée reference
PA00104811

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1675 map "La Riviere de la Garomne et la Dordogne et le pays aux environs de Bordeaux" (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

L'église se compose d'une nef et d'un choeur terminé par une abside circulaire. Les parties occidentales de l'édifice ont conservé leurs dispositions du 12e siècle. Une coupole en pierre sur pendentifs couvre la première travée de choeur. Au-dessus s'élève un clocher dont le plan carré est légèrement arrondi aux angles à l'étage du beffroi, et décoré d'une suite d'arcades placées en avant de la masse principale. L'abside voûtée en cul de four comporte cinq arcatures retombant sur des colonnes surmontées de chapiteaux sculptés.

English translation

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The church consists of a nave and a choir terminated by a circular apse. The western parts of the building have retained their 12th-century arrangements. A stone dome on pendentives covers the first bay of the choir. Above it rises a bell tower whose square plan is slightly rounded at the angles at the belfry stage, and decorated with a sequence of arcades placed in front of the main mass. The apse vaulted with cul-de-four comprises five arcatures resting on columns surmounted by sculpted capitals.

Nearby in the register

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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