Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Pierre
Melle, Deux-Sèvres, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise Saint-Pierre : classement par liste de 1862
- Protection dates
- 1862 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Melle
- Département
- Deux-Sèvres
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.22684, -0.14548
- Mérimée reference
- PA00101265
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 1621 map "Carte du Pais d'Aunis Ville et Gouvernement de la Rochelle." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise romane ornée d'un portail sculpté (frise aux modillons séparés par des bas-reliefs représentant les signes du zodiaque). Au-dessus du portail, niche abritant le Christ assis entre la Vierge et saint Jean. Chapiteaux historiés.
English translation
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History
Romanesque church adorned with a sculpted portal (frieze with modillions separated by bas-reliefs representing the signs of the zodiac). Above the portal, niche housing the seated Christ between the Virgin and Saint John. Historiated capitals.
Nearby in the register
- Maison Art Nouveaumaisonunder 1 mi
- Ancien Palais de Justice, ancien Hôtel de Ménocpalais de justiceunder 1 mi
- Ancienne église Saint-Savinienégliseunder 1 mi
- Hospicehospiceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.