Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Porchaire
Saint-Porchaire, Charente-Maritime, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise : classement par arrêté du 7 juin 1933
- Protection dates
- 1933/06/07 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 15e siècle, 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Porchaire
- Département
- Charente-Maritime
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.82136, -0.78471
- Mérimée reference
- PA00105222
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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
Quelques éléments du 12e siècle subsistent dans la première travée mais le reste de l'édifice date du 15e siècle. La nef est flanquée, du côté sud, d'une petite chapelle abritant les fonts baptismaux et d'un clocher carré. Elle se termine par un chevet plat, percé d'une grande verrière à meneaux et à réseau flamboyant. L'une des chapelles du côté sud supporte le clocher carré, remanié au 15e siècle. La façade occidentale, surmontée de deux étages d'arcatures, date du 12e siècle mais sa porte a été remaniée au 15e. Les seules parties sculptées sont les chapiteaux de la façade et la frise à métopes et modillons du 12e siècle, de la première travée, côté sud.
English translation
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History
A few elements from the 12th century remain in the first bay but the rest of the building dates from the 15th century. The nave is flanked, on the south side, by a small chapel housing the baptismal fonts and a square bell tower. It terminates in a flat chevet, pierced by a large window with mullions and flamboyant tracery. One of the chapels on the south side supports the square bell tower, which was reworked in the 15th century. The western façade, surmounted by two storeys of arcading, dates from the 12th century but its door was reworked in the 15th. The only carved parts are the capitals of the façade and the frieze with metopes and corbels from the 12th century, of the first bay, south side.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.