Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Vincent
Champmillon, Charente, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : classement par arrêté du 23 mars 1904
- Protection dates
- 1904/03/23 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Champmillon
- Département
- Charente
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.63913, -0.00050
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104279
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1714 map "Bourdelois du Perigord." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise romane fortifiée. La porte principale est encadrée de deux arcatures aveugles. Portail avec chapiteaux. Les contreforts séparant les travées étaient couronnés de corbeaux supportant autrefois les créneaux de défense. La nef se compose de quatre travées, la première couverte en berceau, les deux suivantes en coupoles. Le choeur est couvert en hémicycle et l'avant-choeur en berceau.
English translation
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History
Fortified Romanesque church. The main door is framed by two blind arcatures. Portal with capitals. The buttresses separating the bays were crowned with corbels that once supported the defensive crenellations. The nave is composed of four bays, the first covered with a barrel vault, the two following with domes. The choir is covered with a hemicycle and the ante-choir with a barrel vault.
Nearby in the register
- Château de la Chapellechâteauunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Orientéglise2 mi
- Vieux logis du 18e sièclemaison2 mi
- Église Saint-Thomaséglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.