Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Sainte-Colombe
Sainte-Colombe, Charente, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise Sainte-Colombe (cad. B 120) : classement par arrêté du 13 novembre 1973
- Protection dates
- 1973/11/13 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Sainte-Colombe
- Département
- Charente
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.83323, 0.31895
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104496
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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
L'église se compose d'une nef et d'un faux carré couverts d'un lambris en place de leurs berceaux primitifs, ainsi que d'une abside sous cul de four. Les murs de la nef et du carré ont été en partie remontés. Chapiteaux ornés de feuillages et d'animaux. La façade est surmontée d'un pignon portant un clocher-arcade à deux ouvertures. Deux statues-colonnes accompagnent la baie médiane. Au-dessus du bandeau qui sert d'imposte à la fenêtre, deux animaux ailés et couchés, représentant un lion et un taureau. La division tripartite est accusée par des contreforts d'angles et les pilastres encadrant le portail.
English translation
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History
The church consists of a nave and a false square covered with lath and plaster in place of their original barrel vaults, as well as an apse under a cove vault. The walls of the nave and the square have been partly rebuilt. Capitals decorated with foliage and animals. The façade is surmounted by a gable bearing a porch arcade with two openings. Two statue-columns accompany the central opening. Above the band which serves as the impost for the window, two winged and recumbent animals, representing a lion and a bull. The tripartite division is emphasized by corner buttresses and pilasters framing the portal.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.