Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Cimetière
Vaux-sur-Mer, Charente-Maritime, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Cimetière, près de l'église : classement par décret du 11 août 1936
- Protection dates
- 1936/08/11 : classé MH
- Type
- cimetière
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Vaux-sur-Mer
- Département
- Charente-Maritime
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.64584, -1.06294
- Mérimée reference
- PA00105294
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1764 map "Embouchure de la riviere de Gironde depuis la mer jusqu'au banc de Bey." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ce cimetière est un exemple, devenu rare en Saintonge, de vieux cimetière faisant corps avec l'église. Il a conservé de nombreuses tombes en forme de sarcophage de pierre (pierre portée par des supports ou chantiers), dont la tradition remonte au moins au 12e siècle.
English translation
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History
This cemetery is an example, now rare in Saintonge, of an old cemetery forming a single body with the church. It has retained many tombs in the shape of stone sarcophagus (stone borne by supports or trestles), a tradition which dates back at least to the 12th century.
Nearby in the register
- Église abbatiale Saint-Etienneégliseunder 1 mi
- Restes de l'ancienne église Saint-Pallaiségliseunder 1 mi
- Marché couvertmarché2 mi
- Église Saint-Pierreéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.