Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Pierre de Sonneville
Lignières-Sonneville, Charente, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise de Sonneville (cad. A 159) : inscription par arrêté du 30 octobre 1973
- Protection dates
- 1973/10/30 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Lignières-Sonneville
- Département
- Charente
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.57569, -0.18532
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104395
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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
L'église daterait du 12e siècle. Chapelle de village, elle possède des caractères simples, voire archaïques. Le plan présente un rectangle allongé, sans transept, et terminé par un chevet plat épaulé par de longs contreforts. La nef est couverte d'un plafond récent masquant l'ancienne voûte détruite. Le choeur est surmonté d'une coupole simple sur pendentifs. Extérieurement, cette coupole est surmontée d'un clocher carré. La façade est percée, au rez-de-chaussée, de trois ouvertures dont deux aveugles et brisées encadrant la porte d'entrée en plein cintre. Le mur de façade est couronné d'un campanile aussi haut que le clocher.
English translation
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History
The church would date from the 12th century. A village chapel, it possesses simple, even archaic characteristics. The plan presents an elongated rectangle, without transept, and terminated by a flat chevet buttressed by long buttresses. The nave is covered by a recent ceiling masking the former destroyed vault. The choir is surmounted by a simple dome on pendentives. Externally, this dome is surmounted by a square bell tower. The façade is pierced, at ground level, by three openings of which two are blind and pointed, framing the entrance door in the round arch. The façade wall is crowned by a campanile as tall as the bell tower.
Nearby in the register
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
- Église de Saint-Palais-des-Combeséglise1 mi
- Église Notre-Dame-de-Lignièreséglise1 mi
- Châteauchâteau1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.