Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancien prieuré
Cherves-Châtelars, Charente, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé), in part
- Protection
- classé MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Les six chapiteaux du transept : classement par arrêté du 7 juin 1923
- Protection dates
- 1923/06/07 : classé MH
- Type
- prieuré
- Main period of construction
- 11e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Cherves-Châtelars
- Département
- Charente
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.82752, 0.51948
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104295
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
De l'ancien prieuré ne subsistent que les ruines de la nef. Le transept et le choeur sont détruits et seuls quelques parties de murs sont encore debout. Les chapiteaux surmontant les colonnes supportant autrefois les arcs de la nef, sont épannelés. Les chapiteaux du transept sont sculptés.
English translation
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History
Of the old priory only the ruins of the nave remain. The transept and the choir are destroyed and only some parts of walls are still standing. The capitals surmounting the columns that formerly supported the arcs of the nave are drafted. The capitals of the transept are sculpted.
Nearby in the register
- Vestiges d'un édifice gallo-romainmonumentunder 1 mi
- Église Notre-Dame et Saint-Pierre de Cherveséglise2 mi
- Haut fourneau de Puiraveau (ou Puyravaud)haut fourneau3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.