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Église Saint-Martin

Jouars-Pontchartrain, Yvelines, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
L'église en totalité (cad. ZE 74) : inscription par arrêté du 11 mars 2003
Protection dates
2003/03/11 : inscrit MH
Type
église
Main period of construction
1ère moitié 16e siècle, limite 17e siècle 18e siècle
Later work
Moyen Age
Architect or builder
Romain François (architecte)
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Commune
Jouars-Pontchartrain
Département
Yvelines
Region
Île-de-France
Country
France
Coordinates
48.78879, 1.90015
Mérimée reference
PA78000016

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1695 map "Canal de la Riviere d'Eure depuis Pontgouin, jusques a Versailes (eastern sheet)." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Eglise d'origine médiévale (13e siècle) , remaniée au début du 16e siècle (piliers du choeur, chapelle latérale droite). A la limite des 17e et 18e siècles, l'architecte ingénieur François Romain apporte diverses transformations. Un abri charpenté précède un clocher-porche. Nef lambrissée à trois travées dont la première s'ouvre au nord sur un baptistère hors oeuvre de plan carré. Choeur à deux travées voûtées d'ogives, accosté de chapelles latérales.

English translation

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Church of medieval origin (13th century), reworked in the early 16th century (pillars of the choir, right lateral chapel). At the limit of the 17th and 18th centuries, engineer architect François Romain brings various transformations. A timber shelter precedes a porch tower. Nave with wainscoting in three bays, the first of which opens to the north onto a square-plan baptistry outside the structure. Choir with two bays with rib vault, flanked by lateral chapels.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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