Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Christophe
Claix, Charente, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : classement par arrêté du 20 octobre 1920
- Protection dates
- 1920/10/20 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Claix
- Département
- Charente
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.54878, 0.05482
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104305
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
Edifice roman du 12e siècle, complet dans son ensemble. La nef est voûtée en berceau et renforcée par trois arcs doubleaux. L'abside est voûtée en cul de four et reliée à la nef par un clocher carré dont la partie supérieure a disparu. Celui-ci repose sur une coupole en pierre.
English translation
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History
Romanesque building of the 12th century, complete in its entirety. The nave is vaulted with a barrel vault and reinforced by three transverse arches. The apse is vaulted with a cul-de-four and connected to the nave by a square bell tower whose upper part has disappeared. This rests on a stone dome.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Cybardéglise1 mi
- Dolmen de la Boucharderiedolmen2 mi
- Église Saint-Cybard de Roulletéglise2 mi
- Croix de carrefourcroix de chemin2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.