Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martin-de-Caïx
Luzech, Lot, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. AP 184) : inscription par arrêté du 13 janvier 1993
- Protection dates
- 1993/01/13 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- Moyen Age, 19e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Luzech
- Département
- Lot
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.49105, 1.29607
- Mérimée reference
- PA00125601
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 1637 map "Aquitania" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise d'origine romane, modifiée au 19e siècle. C'est une petite église de plan simple, à nef unique et abside semi-circulaire. La façade occidentale est prolongée par un pignon et un clocher-peigne. Elle est percée par une porte à ressaut et chanfrein gothique. Le pignon et le clocher sont encore revêtus d'un enduit en faux appareil.
English translation
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History
Church of Romanesque origin, modified in the 19th century. It is a small church of simple plan, with single nave and semi-circular apse. The western façade is extended by a gable and a comb bell tower. It is pierced by a door with step and Gothic chamfer. The gable and bell tower are still covered with render in false ashlar.
Nearby in the register
- Portions de l'oppidumoppidumunder 1 mi
- Ancien châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Chapelle Saint-Jacques dite des Pénitents Bleuschapelleunder 1 mi
- Maison des Consulsmaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.