Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Pierre
Poursac, Charente, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Enfeu du 12e siècle encastré dans le mur sud de la nef : inscription par arrêté du 26 avril 1938 - Eglise (cad. B 365) : inscription par arrêté du 24 octobre 1997
- Protection dates
- 1938/04/26 : inscrit MH, 1997/10/24 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, milieu 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Poursac
- Département
- Charente
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.96061, 0.25815
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104459
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 1711 map "Le Gouvernement General De Guinne et Gascogne ...." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise d'origine romane (nef, transept à fausse croisée, choeur à travée droite et abside, façade du 12e siècle, enfeu fin 11e-début 12e siècle). Vers le milieu du 16e siècle, agrandissement de la nef. Importantes campagnes de restauration entre 1885 et 1905.
English translation
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History
Church of Romanesque origin (nave, transept with false crossing, choir with straight bay and apse, 12th-century façade, entombment late 11th-early 12th century). Towards the middle of the 16th century, enlargement of the nave. Important restoration campaigns between 1885 and 1905.
Nearby in the register
- Châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Georgeségliseunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Médardéglise2 mi
- Ancien couvent des Cordelierscouvent2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.