Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martial
Saint-Martial-de-Vitaterne, Charente-Maritime, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. A 279) : inscription par arrêté du 5 décembre 2000
- Protection dates
- 2000/12/05 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 11e siècle
- Later work
- 18e siècle, 19e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Martial-de-Vitaterne
- Département
- Charente-Maritime
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.46137, -0.43172
- Mérimée reference
- PA17000034
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDigital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library
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).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Dépendant du prieuré de l'abbaye Saint-Martial de Limoges, l'église garde de la première période de l'art roman l'essentiel de ses caractéristiques malgré les altérations dues aux incendies du milieu du 14e siècle puis vers 1582 pendant les guerres de Religion. Ajout des contreforts à la période gothique. Travaux réalisés au 18e siècle. La clôture du choeur (balustrade en pierre) est contemporaine.
English translation
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History
Depending on the priory of the Abbey of Saint-Martial of Limoges, the church retains from the first period of Romanesque art the essential of its characteristics despite alterations due to fires in the mid-14th century then around 1582 during the Wars of Religion. Addition of buttresses in the Gothic period. Work carried out in the 18th century. The closure of the choir (stone balustrade) is contemporary.
Nearby in the register
- Châteauchâteau1 mi
- Vieille porte de villeporte de ville1 mi
- Église Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protaiséglise1 mi
- Domaine de Lussacchâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.