Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martin
Pouillon, Landes, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. AB 114) : inscription par arrêté du 23 décembre 1996
- Protection dates
- 1996/12/23 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 15e siècle
- Later work
- 19e siècle
- Dates
- 1870
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- place de l'Eglise
- Commune
- Pouillon
- Département
- Landes
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.60523, -0.99664
- Mérimée reference
- PA40000008
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1771 map "107 Aire, Orthez." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Seul élément subsistant d'un prieuré détruit vers 1880. Chevet roman (décor sculpté) à trois absides surmonté d'un appareil défensif du 14e siècle. Nef avec collatéraux du 15e siècle. Tour-clocher accolée à l'ouest en 1870.
English translation
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History
The only remaining element of a priory destroyed around 1880. Romanesque chevet (sculpted decoration) with three apses surmounted by a defensive structure of the 14th century. Nave with aisles of the 15th century. Bell tower adjoining to the west in 1870.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.