Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martin
Jeantes, Aisne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. ZB 34, 35) : inscription par arrêté du 9 juillet 1987
- Protection dates
- 1987/07/09 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Dates
- 1623
- Architect or builder
- Eyck Charles (peintre)
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Jeantes
- Département
- Aisne
- Region
- Hauts-de-France
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 49.78933, 4.20731
- Mérimée reference
- PA00115702
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Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "BnF, département Cartes et plans, GE C-1636" (Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Une des dernières constructions d'églises fortifiées, en brique, à décor de brique vernissée, composée de trois parties : un donjon carré percé de meurtrières, qui ne comporte plus que deux niveaux sur les trois d'origine, flanqué de deux tourelles quadrangulaires percées de meurtrières, une nef et un choeur de même largeur (choeur : 1623, nef vers 1630, donjon vers 1630 ou 1650).
English translation
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History
One of the last constructions of fortified churches, in brick, with glazed brick decoration, composed of three parts: a square keep pierced by loopholes, which now comprises only two levels out of the three original, flanked by two square turrets pierced with loopholes, a nave and a choir of the same width (choir: 1623, nave around 1630, keep around 1630 or 1650).
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.