Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Michel
Nanclars, Charente, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise Saint-Michel : classement par arrêté du 10 août 1920
- Protection dates
- 1920/08/10 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Nanclars
- Département
- Charente
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.84363, 0.22145
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104441
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
Edifice roman du 12e siècle, se composant d'une nef voûtée en berceau, d'une abside voûtée en cul de four, du transept de droite et d'une coupole centrale supportant un clocher carré. Ce dernier est percé dans la partie supérieure de deux arcatures à jour sur chacune des faces.
English translation
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History
Romanesque edifice of the 12th century, consisting of a nave vaulted in barrel vault, an apse vaulted in half-dome, the right transept and a central dome supporting a square bell tower. The latter is pierced in the upper part by two open arcatures on each of the faces.
Nearby in the register
- Dolmen 1 des Grougessite archéologique2 mi
- Commanderie de Templiers, dite Chapelle du Courreaucommanderie2 mi
- Restes du logis de Sigognemanoir3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.