Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle des Templiers
Cressac-Saint-Genis, Charente, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle des Templiers : classement par arrêté du 9 mai 1914
- Protection dates
- 1914/05/09 : classé MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété d'une association
- Commune
- Cressac-Saint-Genis
- Département
- Charente
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.46047, 0.01999
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104351
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 1714 map "Bourdelois du Perigord." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Edifice roman du 12e siècle, qui se compose d'une nef dont le mur est est percé de trois fenêtres plein cintre et le mur ouest par une fenêtre plein cintre également. La nef est couverte en berceau. Tout l'intérieur était peint de fresques de la fin du 12e siècle ou du début du 13e, représentant probablement le départ de Philippe-Auguste pour la Terre Sainte.
English translation
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History
Romanesque building from the 12th century, which consists of a nave whose east wall is pierced by three round-arch windows and the west wall by a round-arch window as well. The nave is covered with a barrel vault. The entire interior was painted with frescoes from the end of the 12th century or the beginning of the 13th, probably representing the departure of Philippe-Auguste for the Holy Land.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Cybard de Porcheresseégliseunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Barthélémy ou Saint-Arthémy de Blanzacéglise1 mi
- Moulin à vent de La Paillemoulin à farine2 mi
- Église Saint-Hilaireéglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.