Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Pierre
Les Nouillers, Charente-Maritime, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : classement par arrêté du 25 avril 1946
- Protection dates
- 1946/04/25 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- Moyen Age
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Les Nouillers
- Département
- Charente-Maritime
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.93126, -0.66390
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104833
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — Géoportail
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
Cet édifice représente un exemple du type des églises dites à files de coupoles. Le plan comprend une nef de trois travées, couvertes chacune d'une coupole sur pendentifs du type saintongeais. La façade ouest a conservé son portail en plein cintre, accosté de deux arcades aveugles et surmonté d'une baie d'éclairage en plein cintre.
English translation
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History
This edifice represents an example of the type of churches known as having files of domes. The plan comprises a nave of three bays, each covered with a dome on pendentives of the Saintonge type. The west façade has preserved its round arch portal, accompanied by two blind arcades and surmounted by a round arch lighting opening.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.