Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Cybard
Magnac-sur-Touvre, Charente, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : classement par arrêté du 21 septembre 1907
- Protection dates
- 1907/09/21 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Magnac-sur-Touvre
- Département
- Charente
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.66511, 0.23952
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104407
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
Eglise romane du 12e siècle qui présente une forme particulière de croix grecque. Les quatre bras sont égaux en longueur, mais la coupole n'est pas au centre. Les absides du transept forment un carré. Le clocher est placé au-dessus de la coupole.
English translation
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History
Romanesque church of the 12th century which presents a particular form of Greek cross. The four arms are equal in length, but the dome is not at the centre. The transept apses form a square. The bell tower is placed above the dome.
Nearby in the register
- Église Sainte-Madeleineégliseunder 1 mi
- Logis de la Lèchemaison1 mi
- Fontaine dite de François-Ierfontaine1 mi
- Logis de Fissacmanoir2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.