Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Cathédrale Saint-Louis
La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- La cathédrale : classement par arrêté du 30 octobre 1906
- Protection dates
- 1906/10/30 : classé MH
- Type
- cathédrale
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle, 18e siècle
- Dates
- 1742
- Ownership
- propriété de l'État
- Commune
- La Rochelle
- Département
- Charente-Maritime
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.16138, -1.15333
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104876
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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
A la cathédrale du 18e siècle est accolé un clocher du 14e siècle, dit de Saint-Barthélémy. Il s'agit du clocher de l'ancienne cathédrale, détruite pendant les guerres de Religion.
English translation
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History
To the 18th-century cathedral is attached a bell tower of the 14th century, known as that of Saint-Barthélémy. This is the bell tower of the former cathedral, destroyed during the Wars of Religion.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.