Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Vivien
Vergeroux, Charente-Maritime, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façade : inscription par arrêté du 13 mars 1935
- Protection dates
- 1935/03/13 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Vergeroux
- Département
- Charente-Maritime
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.95930, -0.98446
- Mérimée reference
- PA00105296
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 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
Eglise romane très remaniée, mais dont la façade a conservé son caractère primitif. Cette dernière s'ouvre par un portail en plein cintre sans tympan. Archivolte décorée d'étoiles en relief. Au-dessus, pierre encastrée, sculptée aux armes de France. L'écu sommé de couronne royale, est entouré des colliers des ordres du Roi. Corniche à modillons sculptés. Clocher-pignon à deux ouvertures.
English translation
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History
A Romanesque church much altered, but whose façade has retained its primitive character. The latter opens through a round-arch portal without tympanum. Archivolt decorated with relief stars. Above, an inlaid stone carved with the arms of France. The escutcheon surmounted by royal crown is surrounded by the collars of the King's Orders. Cornice with carved modillions. Porch gable with two openings.
Nearby in the register
- Poudrière extérieurepoudrièreunder 1 mi
- Garegare1 mi
- Église Notre Dame du Faubourgéglise1 mi
- Hôpital maritimehôpital1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.