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Église Notre-Dame

Surgères, Charente-Maritime, France

The record

Designation
Historic monument, classified (classé)
Protection
classé MH
Extent of protection
Eglise Notre-Dame : classement par liste de 1862
Protection dates
1862 : classé MH
Type
église
Main period of construction
11e siècle, 12e siècle
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Commune
Surgères
Département
Charente-Maritime
Region
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Country
France
Coordinates
46.10524, -0.75015
Mérimée reference
PA00105275

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David 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).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

L'église romane du 12e siècle comportait à l'origine une abside en hémicycle, un choeur, un transept et une nef couverte en berceau. Une crypte a été creusée sous le choeur. Durant la guerre de Cent ans, le clocher ainsi que la nef sont détruits. Les piles actuelles datent du 15e siècle. La nef est à nouveau saccagée vers 1472 et une nouvelle charpente est construite à la fin du 16e siècle. A la Révolution, saccage du caveau des seigneurs de Surgère qui se trouvait sous la crypte. En 1899 la foudre ébranle le clocher qui est reconstruit plus haut qu'à l'origine.

English translation

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The 12th-century Romanesque church originally comprised a hemicycle apse, a choir, a transept and a nave covered with a barrel vault. A crypt was dug beneath the choir. During the Hundred Years War, the bell tower and the nave are destroyed. The present piers date from the 15th century. The nave is again devastated around 1472 and a new roof structure is built at the end of the 16th century. At the Revolution, the vault of the lords of Surgère, which was beneath the crypt, is sacked. In 1899 lightning strikes the bell tower which is rebuilt higher than originally.

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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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