Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Vivien
Charras, 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
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Charras
- Département
- Charente
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.54298, 0.41648
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104284
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
Eglise romane du 12e siècle, fortifiée au 14e. L'intérieur a été remanié et il ne reste rien de l'édifice d'origine. L'extérieur est resté intact. Mâchicoulis et chemin de ronde subsistent.
English translation
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History
Romanesque church of the 12th century, fortified in the 14th. The interior has been remodelled and nothing remains of the original building. The exterior has remained intact. Machicolations and wall-walk subsist.
Nearby in the register
- Châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Ancienne abbaye de Fontaine Vive, ou de Grosbotabbaye1 mi
- Logis de la Bréchiniemanoir2 mi
- Église de Rozet ou de Rauzetéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.