Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Nicolas
Cellefrouin, Charente, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : classement par arrêté du 21 septembre 1907
- Protection dates
- 1907/09/21 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 11e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Cellefrouin
- Département
- Charente
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.89103, 0.39139
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104267
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 1777 map "69 Angouleme." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Edifice de transition entre le 11e et le 12e siècle, l'église romane comprend une nef couverte en berceau, un transept avec coupole octogonale surmontée d'un clocher carré et une abside flanquée de deux absidioles.
English translation
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History
Building of transition between the 11th and 12th century, the Romanesque church comprises a nave covered with barrel vault, a transept with octagonal dome surmounted by a square bell tower and an apse flanked by two small apses.
Nearby in the register
- Lanterne des Mortslanterne des mortsunder 1 mi
- Château de Sansacchâteau3 mi
- Église Saint-Martinéglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.