Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste
Bourg-Charente, Charente, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- L'église : classement par arrêté du 10 février 1913
- Protection dates
- 1913/02/10 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Bourg-Charente
- Département
- Charente
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.67312, -0.21815
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104255
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IGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1771 map "102 Saintes." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise romane du 12e siècle, parfaitement conservée. Nef et transept avec abside et absidioles. Les travées sont voûtées en coupole. La façade présente trois séries d'arcatures superposées et est couronnée par un fronton. L'abside présente également des arcatures et une riche ornementation symbolique aux modillons.
English translation
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History
Romanesque church of the 12th century, perfectly preserved. Nave and transept with apse and absidioles. The bays are vaulted with domes. The façade presents three series of superposed arcading and is crowned by a pediment. The apse also presents arcading and rich symbolic ornamentation with modillions.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.