Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Sainte-Marie ou Notre-Dame
Lonzac, Charente-Maritime, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- L'église : classement par arrêté du 21 janvier 1907
- Protection dates
- 1907/01/21 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Dates
- 1530
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Lonzac
- Département
- Charente-Maritime
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.59590, -0.39483
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104782
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1714 map "Bourdelois du Perigord." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise bâtie en 1530 aux frais de Jacques henry de Genouillac, grand maître de l'artillerie de France, à la mémoire de son épouse Catherine d'Archiac, dame de Lonzac. L'édifice comprend une nef de quatre travées, un transept et un sanctuaire. Le clocher s'appuie sur l'un des bras du transept.
English translation
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History
Church built in 1530 at the expense of Jacques henry de Genouillac, Grand Master of the Artillery of France, in memory of his wife Catherine d'Archiac, lady of Lonzac. The building comprises a nave of four bays, a transept and a sanctuary. The bell tower rests on one of the arms of the transept.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Saturninéglise2 mi
- Église Saint-Sauveuréglise3 mi
- Église Saint-Pierreéglise3 mi
- Calvairecalvaire monumental3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.