Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église de l'Assomption
Romazières, Charente-Maritime, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : inscription par arrêté du 13 mars 1935
- Protection dates
- 1935/03/13 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Romazières
- Département
- Charente-Maritime
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.99087, -0.17447
- Mérimée reference
- PA00105151
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
Eglise romane présentant une nef recouverte de lambris. Choeur voûté en berceau. Abside voûtée en cul de four. Chapiteaux romans cubiques, nus ou à décoration très fruste. La façade romane s'ouvre par un portail en plein cintre. Clocher à deux arcades.
English translation
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History
Romanesque church presenting a nave covered with wainscoting. Choir vaulted with a barrel vault. Apse vaulted with a cul-de-four. Cubic Romanesque capitals, bare or with very rudimentary decoration. The Romanesque façade opens with a round-arch portal. Bell tower with two arcades.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.