Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martin de Mayrinhac-le-Francal
Rocamadour, Lot, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- L'église (cad. AD 139) : inscription par arrêté du 24 février 2003
- Protection dates
- 2003/02/24 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 10e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Rocamadour
- Département
- Lot
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.83985, 1.61231
- Mérimée reference
- PA46000029
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
L'église est mentionnée dès 937. L'édifice actuel se compose d'une nef et d'un chevet plat cantonnés de contreforts pilastres semi-cylindriques. Les parties hautes portent encore la trace d'aménagements défensifs.
English translation
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History
The church is mentioned from 937 onwards. The present building consists of a nave and a flat chevet flanked by semi-cylindrical pilaster buttresses. The upper parts still bear traces of defensive arrangements.
Nearby in the register
- Ancien prieuré Saint-Etienne des Alixprieuré2 mi
- Grotte des Merveillesgrotte ornée2 mi
- Ruines de l'ancien hôpitalhôpital3 mi
- Porte de l'Hôpital, dite Porte Sainteporte de ville3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.