Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Vivien
Ecoyeux, Charente-Maritime, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise Saint-Vivien : classement par arrêté du 21 janvier 1907
- Protection dates
- 1907/01/21 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Ecoyeux
- Département
- Charente-Maritime
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.82214, -0.50517
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104678
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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
Eglise construite au 12e siècle avec les dispositions propres à la Saintonge. Grande coupole sous clocher central ; abside voûtée en demi-coupole. L'édifice a été fortifié au 15e siècle par l'addition de tourelles à mâchicoulis, appuyées à l'aide d'encorbellements aux contreforts des façades.
English translation
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History
Church built in the 12th century with the characteristics typical of Saintonge. Large dome under the central bell tower; apse vaulted with a half-barrel vault. The building was fortified in the 15th century by the addition of turrets with machicolations, supported by corbels against the buttresses of the façades.
Nearby in the register
- Château de Polignacchâteauunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Hilaireéglise2 mi
- Jardin de Gabrieljardin3 mi
- Châteauchâteau3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.