Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martin
Marcolès, Cantal, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- L'église (cad. AB 11) : inscription par arrêté du 19 mai 2003
- Protection dates
- 2003/05/19 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Later work
- 19e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Marcolès
- Département
- Cantal
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.78208, 2.35322
- Mérimée reference
- PA15000023
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
Construite au 15e siècle à l'emplacement d'un prieuré fortifié, l'église se compose d'un choeur carré à deux travées et chevet plat, surmonté d'une tour-clocher et précédée d'une nef à cinq travées et chapelles latérales. L'ensemble est voûté d'ogives surbaissées retombant sur culot selon le principe du gothique méridional. A l'intérieur, sculptures gothiques, riche décor peint du 19e siècle, boiseries et mobilier.
English translation
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History
Built in the 15th century on the site of a fortified priory, the church consists of a square choir with two bays and flat chevet, surmounted by a bell tower and preceded by a nave with five bays and lateral chapels. The whole is vaulted with depressed rib vaults bearing on corbels according to the principle of southern Gothic. Inside, Gothic sculptures, rich painted décor of the 19th century, woodwork and furnishings.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.