Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Sainte-Colombe
Sainte-Colombe, Charente-Maritime, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Facade occidentale (cad. A 1573) : inscription par arrêté du 8 octobre 1986
- Protection dates
- 1986/10/08 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Sainte-Colombe
- Département
- Charente-Maritime
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.28309, -0.28155
- Mérimée reference
- PA00105166
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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
Du 12e siècle, l'église n'a conservé de sa construction primitive que sa façade, une partie de sa tour d'escalier et une cuve baptismale. L'édifice est à nef unique et clocher carré. La façade s'ouvre par un portail à trois voussures séparées par des cordons de pointes de diamants et d'entrelacs. La partie supérieure des colonnes soutenant les voussures, est ornée de torsades. Deux motifs géométriques séparent les colonnes des voussures, ainsi que le rez-de-chaussée du premier étage constitué d'une série de cinq arcatures. Le tout est surmonté d'un pignon.
English translation
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History
From the 12th century, the church has preserved from its primitive construction only its façade, part of its staircase tower and a baptismal font. The building has a single nave and a square bell tower. The façade opens with a portal with three voussures separated by cords of diamond-point and interlace. The upper part of the columns supporting the voussures is ornamented with twisted fluting. Two geometric motifs separate the columns from the voussures, as well as the ground floor from the first storey consisting of a series of five arcatures. The whole is crowned by a gable.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.