Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais
Champagné-Saint-Hilaire, Vienne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Le portail : inscription par arrêté du 16 juillet 1925
- Protection dates
- 1925/07/16 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Champagné-Saint-Hilaire
- Département
- Vienne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.31909, 0.32525
- Mérimée reference
- PA00105378
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 1637 map "The County of Pictavia. Poictou" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Portail du 12e siècle, cintré par deux rouleaux de claveaux en pierre ornés de sculptures et protégés par une archivolte moulurée. Les claveaux de l'arc de tête sont tous décorés d'un animal câbré ressemblant à un hippocampe.
English translation
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History
Portal of the 12th century, arched by two rolls of ashlar decorated with sculptures and protected by a moulded archivolt. The ashlar of the outer arch are all decorated with a rearing animal resembling a seahorse.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.