Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Maurice
Saint-Maurice-des-Lions, Charente, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : classement par arrêté du 24 avril 1909
- Protection dates
- 1909/04/24 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Maurice-des-Lions
- Département
- Charente
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.96515, 0.70260
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104506
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1703 map "Map of the Geography of Ancient France). (continued.)" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise du 12e siècle, du type des églises poitevines à une nef voûtée en berceau. Bas-côtés à voûtes d'arêtes. La croix du transept est surmontée d'une coupole. L'abside, voûtée en cul de four, est extérieurement à pans coupés et ornée d'arcatures.
English translation
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History
Church of the 12th century, of the type of Poitevin churches with a single vault-covered nave. Aisles with ribbed vaults. The crossing of the transept is surmounted by a dome. The apse, vaulted in half-dome, is externally cut-sided and decorated with arcatures.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.