Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
église Saint-Étienne
Chepniers, Charente-Maritime, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 13 mars 1935
- Protection dates
- 1935/03/13 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- Dans le bourg
- Commune
- Chepniers
- Département
- Charente-Maritime
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.25523, -0.30935
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104648
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1783 map "103 Blaye." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise des périodes romane et gothique. Nef et choeur voûtés d'ogives. Parois et voûtes ont été peintes vers 1905. Travée sous le clocher couverte d'une coupole sur pendentifs. Chevet plat éclairé d'un triplet et d'une rose. La façade occidentale s'ouvre par un portail gothique. Archivolte en arc brisé décorée de feuillages. Jambages réunis par arcatures. L'étage supérieur du clocher a été refait en style roman en 1905.
English translation
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History
Church of the Romanesque and Gothic periods. Nave and choir vaulted with ribs. Walls and vaults were painted circa 1905. Bay under the bell tower covered with a dome on pendentives. Flat chevet lit by a triplet and a rose window. The western façade opens by a Gothic portal. Archivolt in a pointed arch decorated with foliage. Jambs joined by arcatures. The upper storey of the bell tower was remade in Romanesque style in 1905.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.