Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Pierre
Bois, 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, 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Bois
- Département
- Charente-Maritime
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.48833, -0.59881
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104624
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 LibrariesDigital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1675 map "La Riviere de la Garomne et la Dordogne et le pays aux environs de Bordeaux" (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise romane du 12e siècle, avec deux chapelles latérales ajoutées au 14e siècle. A la croisée, du transept, coupole sur pendentifs.
English translation
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History
Romanesque church of the 12th century, with two lateral chapels added in the 14th century. At the crossing of the transept, dome on pendentives.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Palaiséglise2 mi
- Église Saint-Laurentéglise2 mi
- Château de Plassac (également sur commune de Saint-Genis-de-Saintonge)château2 mi
- Église Saint-Pierreéglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.