Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Notre-Dame
Chabrac, Charente, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. E 47) : inscription par arrêté du 16 juin 1965
- Protection dates
- 1965/06/16 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- le Bourg
- Commune
- Chabrac
- Département
- Charente
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.93204, 0.73869
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104269
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1711 map "Le Gouvernement General De Guinne et Gascogne ...." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise romane du 12e siècle, fortifiée pendant la guerre de Cent ans puis les guerres de Religion. Edifice de plan rectangulaire, avec chevet plat. Les voûtes ont été refaites en briques. Le choeur est couvert d'une voûte sur nervures qui retombent sur des colonnettes du 13e siècle. Chevet plat. La façade occidentale est caractérisée par son portail à trois voussures.
English translation
The text above is the record as published by the Ministère de la Culture, in French. The English below is a machine translation made by TreeAlive, not by the Ministère de la Culture; it has not been checked by a person. Where the two differ, the original is the record. Report a translation error: privacy@treealive.com
History
Romanesque church of the 12th century, fortified during the Hundred Years' War and then the Wars of Religion. Building of rectangular plan, with flat chevet. The vaults were remade in brick. The choir is covered with a rib vault whose ribs rest on 13th century small columns. Flat chevet. The western façade is characterized by its three-voussoir portal.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.