Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Notre-Dame et Saint-Pierre de Cherves
Cherves-Châtelars, Charente, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise de Cherves : inscription par arrêté du 22 mars 1930
- Protection dates
- 1930/03/22 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Cherves-Châtelars
- Département
- Charente
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.81067, 0.54721
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104294
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 du 12e siècle dont l'abside fut reconstruite au 15e. Il se compose d'une nef voûtée en berceau, avec arcs doubleaux reposant sur des colonnes à chapiteaux sculptés. Clocher carré. L'intérieur de la nef a été plâtré. Le sol de l'abside est surélevé d'une marche au-dessus du sol de la nef.
English translation
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History
Edifice of the 12th century of which the apse was rebuilt in the 15th. It is composed of a nave vaulted in barrel vault, with transverse arches resting on columns with sculptured capitals. Square bell tower. The interior of the nave has been plastered. The floor of the apse is raised one step above the floor of the nave.
Nearby in the register
- Ancien prieuréprieuré2 mi
- Vestiges d'un édifice gallo-romainmonument2 mi
- Haut fourneau de Puiraveau (ou Puyravaud)haut fourneau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.