Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Vivien
Vandré, Charente-Maritime, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise Saint-Vivien : classement par arrêté du 19 janvier 1911
- Protection dates
- 1911/01/19 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Vandré
- Département
- Charente-Maritime
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.05448, -0.76442
- Mérimée reference
- PA00105292
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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
Monument du 12e siècle, à nef unique, couverte par des voûtes d'arêtes et dont la travée précédant le choeur est surmontée d'un clocher éclairé, sur chacune de ses faces, de trois baies à archivoltes ornées. L'abside, polygonale à l'extérieur, est circulaire à l'intérieur. La façade a conservé son décor d'arcs accompagnant la porte principale et de corniches à corbelets surmontant le portail.
English translation
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History
Monument of the 12th century, with a single nave, covered by rib vaults and whose bay preceding the choir is surmounted by a bell tower lit, on each of its faces, by three openings with decorated archivolts. The apse, polygonal on the exterior, is circular on the interior. The façade has retained its decoration of arches accompanying the main door and cornices with corbels surmounting the portal.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.