Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Sainte-Madeleine
La Clisse, Charente-Maritime, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 14 juin 1928
- Protection dates
- 1928/06/14 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- La Clisse
- Département
- Charente-Maritime
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.73523, -0.76263
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104655
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Nef romane, autrefois voûtée, maintenant couverte d'un plafond. La dernière travée conserve des demi-colonnes avec arrachements d'ogives de style flamboyant. Quatre chapiteaux romans (trois à décor floral, le dernier à deux personnages tenant chacun un grand serpent). Façade romane du 12e siècle. Voussures ornées de palmettes, entrelacs... Clocher-arcade. Contreforts de style gothique flamboyant.
English translation
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History
Romanesque nave, formerly vaulted, now covered with a ceiling. The last bay retains half-columns with breaks for flamboyant-style rib vaults. Four Romanesque capitals (three with floral decoration, the last with two figures each holding a large serpent). Romanesque façade from the 12th century. Mouldings decorated with palmettes, interlace... Porch tower. Buttresses in flamboyant Gothic style.
Nearby in the register
- Domaine de Luchatfermeunder 1 mi
- Châteauchâteau2 mi
- Église Saint-Martinéglise2 mi
- Église Saint-Madeleineéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.