Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martin-d'Espès
Espès-Undurein, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- L'église en totalité (cad. ZD 176) : inscription par arrêté du 26 novembre 2008
- Protection dates
- 2008/11/26 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Espès-Undurein
- Département
- Pyrénées-Atlantiques
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.27928, -0.88360
- Mérimée reference
- PA64000069
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Aquitaniae descriptio" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'église conserve un remarquable plafond peint du 17e siècle, dont l'iconographie est représentative des oeuvres à intention pédagogique inspirées par la Contre Réforme issue du Concile de Trente.
English translation
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History
The church retains a remarkable painted ceiling of the 17th century, whose iconography is representative of works with pedagogical intention inspired by the Counter-Reformation stemming from the Council of Trent.
Nearby in the register
- Église d'Undureinégliseunder 1 mi
- Manoirmanoir2 mi
- Château de Mongastonchâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.