Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-André
Annepont, Charente-Maritime, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : classement par arrêté du 21 janvier 1907
- Protection dates
- 1907/01/21 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Annepont
- Département
- Charente-Maritime
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.84538, -0.61431
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104592
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1621 map "Carte du Pais d'Aunis Ville et Gouvernement de la Rochelle." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Edifice de la fin du 12e siècle, sans doute issu du chemin de Compostelle. L'autel dressé contre la façade occidentale a sans doute été édifié au 15e siècle pour les pèlerins. Eglise représentative de l'architecture romane saintongeaise.
English translation
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History
Building from the end of the 12th century, probably from the Camino de Compostela route. The altar erected against the western façade was probably built in the 15th century for pilgrims. Church representative of Saintonge Romanesque architecture.
Nearby in the register
- Ruines du logis de Maine-Moreaumanoirunder 1 mi
- Château de Taillebourgchâteau2 mi
- Ancienne croix de carrefourcroix monumentale2 mi
- Église de la Frédièreéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.