Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Christophe
Romestaing, Lot-et-Garonne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. D 501) : inscription par arrêté du 30 mars 1965
- Protection dates
- 1965/03/30 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Romestaing
- Département
- Lot-et-Garonne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.41603, 0.00258
- Mérimée reference
- PA00084217
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 1783 map "72 Castillonez, Velleneuve, La Reole." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ancienne commanderie des chevaliers de Malte. L'édifice, typique de la région, comporte un choeur et un avant-choeur voûtés en pierre, tandis que la nef l'est en brique. L'avant-choeur sous clocher comporte des colonnes aux chapiteaux historiés : Noé nu surmonté d'une grappe de vigne ; un personnage le couvre d'un manteau, un autre rit ; oiseaux ; moines ; lions affrontés se battant avec deux hommes nus. Une tourelle adossée à la face nord, contient un escalier à vis conduisant au clocher carré. La porte de la sacristie actuelle donnait autrefois accès à la Commanderie, dont il ne reste rien.
English translation
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History
Former commandery of the Knights of Malta. The building, typical of the region, comprises a choir and an antechoir vaulted in stone, while the nave is vaulted in brick. The antechoir under the bell tower comprises columns with historiated capitals: Noah naked topped with a bunch of grapes; a figure covering him with a cloak, another laughing; birds; monks; lions facing each other fighting with two naked men. A turret attached to the north face contains a spiral staircase leading to the square bell tower. The door of the present sacristy formerly gave access to the Commandery, of which nothing remains.
Nearby in the register
- Ancienne église Saint-Martin de Monclariséglise3 mi
- Église Saint-Jean de Vidailhacéglise3 mi
- Église Saint-Martinéglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.