Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Caprais
Polignac, Charente-Maritime, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façade : inscription par arrêté du 12 janvier 1931
- Protection dates
- 1931/01/12 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Polignac
- Département
- Charente-Maritime
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.28452, -0.30802
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104841
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 1783 map "103 Blaye." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise gothique à nef unique, terminée par un chevet plat. La nef est couverte d'un lambris de bois. Fenêtres de style gothique flamboyant. La façade s'ouvre par un portail du 16e siècle, de style gothique flamboyant, avec motifs Renaissance. Le portail est accosté de colonnettes torses, surmontées chacune d'un socle portant un lion accroupi.
English translation
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History
Gothic church with a single nave, terminated by a flat chevet. The nave is covered with wooden lining. Windows of flamboyant Gothic style. The façade opens through a 16th-century portal, of flamboyant Gothic style, with Renaissance motifs. The portal is flanked by twisted colonnettes, each surmounted by a base bearing a crouching lion.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.