Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Claud
Saint-Claud, Charente, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 14 mai 1925
- Protection dates
- 1925/05/14 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Claud
- Département
- Charente
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.89393, 0.46428
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104495
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
La crypte du 14e siècle est placée sous le choeur. L'accès se fait par deux escaliers placés de chaque côté du choeur. Elle est couverte d'une voûte d'arêtes surbaissée. Le sol en est dallé. Au centre de la crypte, un gros pilier semble soutenir la voûte.
English translation
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History
The 14th-century crypt is placed under the choir. Access is via two staircases placed on each side of the choir. It is covered with a depressed groin vault. Its floor is paved. At the centre of the crypt, a large pillar seems to support the vault.
Nearby in the register
- Viaduc ferroviaire dit viaduc de la Sonnette (également sur commune de Saint-Claud)pont2 mi
- Château de Nieuilchâteau3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.