Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption
Vouhé, Charente-Maritime, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise paroissiale : inscription par arrêté du 19 septembre 1928
- Protection dates
- 1928/09/19 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Vouhé
- Département
- Charente-Maritime
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.14751, -0.80131
- Mérimée reference
- PA00105303
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 et gothique, restaurée en 1858 et 1862. A l'intérieur, les voûtes écroulées ont été remplacées par une charpente. La dernière travée conserve d'intéressants chapiteaux romans. L'abside, également romane, est voûtée en cul de four, et possède des chapiteaux sculptés d'entrelacs... La façade est surmontée d'un clocher-arcade.
English translation
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History
Romanesque and Gothic church, restored in 1858 and 1862. Inside, the collapsed vaults were replaced by a roof structure. The last bay retains interesting Romanesque capitals. The apse, also Romanesque, is vaulted with a half-dome, and has capitals decorated with interlace... The facade is surmounted by a porch tower.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.