Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Vincent
Curac, Charente, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Choeur (cad. B 289) : inscription par arrêté du 7 juin 1993
- Protection dates
- 1993/06/07 : inscrit MH partiellement
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Curac
- Département
- Charente
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.29505, 0.02763
- Mérimée reference
- PA00125674
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1714 map "Bourdelois du Perigord." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Choeur du 12e siècle. Réfection de 1860 à 1862 de la nef, de la toiture et de la façade par l'architecte Warin ; clocher refait en 1881. Ces travaux ont vraisemblablement repris les dispositions d'origine. La nef de trois travées est voûtée en brique. Le faux carré du transept est couvert d'une coupole barlongue, peut-être en briques, sur pendentifs peu élevés, supportant le clocher. L'abside semi-circulaire, voûtée en cul de four, est ornée de cinq arcs sur colonnes, entourés d'un cordon à têtes de clou. La façade du 19e siècle s'ouvre par une porte à quatre voussures. Au premier étage, cinq arcades partent d'un bandeau mouluré.
English translation
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History
Choir of the 12th century. Refection from 1860 to 1862 of the nave, roof and façade by architect Warin; bell tower remade in 1881. These works have presumably resumed the original arrangements. The nave of three bays is vaulted in brick. The false crossing of the transept is covered with an oblong dome, perhaps in bricks, on low pendentives, supporting the bell tower. The semi-circular apse, vaulted with a cul-de-four vault, is ornamented with five arcs on columns, surrounded by a nail-head moulding. The 19th-century façade opens with a door of four voussures. On the first floor, five arcades spring from a moulded band.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.