Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Pierre
Lussant, 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
- Lussant
- Département
- Charente-Maritime
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.95859, -0.82191
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104785
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
La nef est couverte d'une fausse voûte en berceau, partagée en deux travées par un arc doubleau retombant sur des colonnes engagées à chapiteaux romans (personnages). Le carré du transept est voûté d'ogives (style gothique flamboyant) et porte le clocher. Abside en hémicycle.
English translation
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History
The nave is covered by a false barrel vault, divided into two bays by a doubleaux arch resting on engaged columns with Romanesque capitals (figures). The square of the transept is vaulted with ribs (flamboyant Gothic style) and bears the bell tower. Apse in hemicycle.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.