Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martin
La Meurdraquière, Manche, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- L'église en totalité (cad. ZE 2) : inscription par arrêté du 24 août 2005
- Protection dates
- 2005/08/24 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle, 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- Eglise (l')
- Commune
- La Meurdraquière
- Département
- Manche
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.84940, -1.40815
- Mérimée reference
- PA50000036
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1773 map "2me. Carte Particuliere des Costes de Normandie." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise construite à la jonction des 13e et 14e siècles, se composant d'une nef unique, d'une chapelle nord, d'une croisée et d'un choeur terminé par un chevet plat. L'édifice, par sa tour de croisée, est représentatif des églises de la région.
English translation
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History
Church built at the junction of the 13th and 14th centuries, consisting of a single nave, a north chapel, a crossing and a choir terminated by a flat chevet. The building, by its crossing tower, is representative of the churches of the region.