Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Germain
Etriac, Charente, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Les chapiteaux historiés du transept (cad. D 48) : inscription par arrêté du 24 mai 1965
- Protection dates
- 1965/05/24 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- le Bourg
- Commune
- Etriac
- Département
- Charente
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.52803, -0.02509
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104366
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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
Eglise de l'ancien diocèse d'Angoulème, construite au 12e siècle. L'édifice a été mutilé et la voûte en pierre de la nef n'existe plus. Il est orienté, de plan rectangulaire à une seule nef et chevet plat. La nef est de trois travées, avec arcatures sur pilastres. Le carré du transept est plus étroit. Les chapiteaux des colonnes sont richement sculptés. Le choeur d'une travée est couvert d'une voûte à nervures du 15e siècle. Le pignon a été refait.
English translation
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History
Church of the former diocese of Angoulême, built in the 12th century. The building has been mutilated and the stone vault of the nave no longer exists. It is oriented, of rectangular plan with a single nave and flat chevet. The nave is of three bays, with arcatures on pilasters. The square of the transept is narrower. The capitals of the columns are richly sculptured. The chancel of one bay is covered with a rib vault of the 15th century. The gable was remade.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.