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Église Saint-Jacques

La Jard, Charente-Maritime, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Eglise Saint-Jacques (cad. AB 24) : inscription par arrêté du 27 octobre 1967
Protection dates
1967/10/27 : inscrit MH
Type
église
Main period of construction
12e siècle, 14e siècle, 4e quart 19e siècle
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Lieu-dit
le Bourg
Commune
La Jard
Département
Charente-Maritime
Region
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Country
France
Coordinates
45.65450, -0.58589
Mérimée reference
PA00104770

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David 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).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Eglise de la fin du 12e siècle. Les deux travées de la nef furent reconstruites au 14e siècle. A cette même époque, des mouvements dans le clocher incitèrent à construire deux énormes contreforts aux angles nord-est et sud-est du clocher. La façade date de 1880. La première travée de la nef est couverte d'une voûte d'arêtes. La seconde travée est voûtée sur croisée d'ogives portée sur de hauts piliers à chapiteaux corinthiens. Culots à personnages. L'abside est en cul de four et percée de trois fenêtres romanes. Au nord, petite piscine dans une niche en tiers-point.

English translation

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Church dating from the end of the 12th century. The two bays of the nave were rebuilt in the 14th century. At that same period, movements in the bell tower led to the construction of two enormous buttresses at the north-east and south-east angles of the bell tower. The façade dates from 1880. The first bay of the nave is covered with a groin vault. The second bay is vaulted with a rib vault carried on tall pillars with Corinthian capitals. Corbels with figures. The apse is in cul de four and pierced by three Romanesque windows. To the north, small piscina in a niche with pointed arch.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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