Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
église Saint-Étienne
Floirac, Charente-Maritime, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- L'église en totalité (cad. ZR 104) : inscription par arrêté du 14 novembre 2006
- Protection dates
- 2006/11/14 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 13e siècle, 15e siècle, 19e siècle
- Architect or builder
- Fontorbe Victor (architecte), Rullier Eustache (architecte)
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Floirac
- Département
- Charente-Maritime
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.47772, -0.74925
- Mérimée reference
- PA17000073
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1783 map "103 Blaye." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Cette église formait, avec le cimetière, un prieuré uni au chapitre de Luçon, en Vendée. La nef et le clocher datent du 12e siècle et le chevet plat du 15e. L'édifice primitif semble avoir été construit à partir des ruines d'une villa gallo-romaine, dont témoignent les tessons de poterie retrouvés près de l'édifice. La nef unique est divisée en deux travées voûtées d'ogives avec formerets. La travée supportant le clocher est couverte d'une coupole soutenue par des arcs ogivaux qui prennent appui sur des trompes et se réunissent autour d'un anneau formant trou à cloches, disposition assez rare en Saintonge. Le clocher massif est divisé en sections par des colonnes réunies en arcs brisés. Au 19e siècle, d'importantes restaurations sont effectuées : Victor Fontorbe se consacre aux parties hautes de 1843 à 1850 ; Eustache Rullier reconstruit les voûtes de la nef, en 1898 et créé une sacristie (1885).
English translation
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History
This church formed, with the cemetery, a priory united to the chapter of Luçon, in Vendée. The nave and bell tower date from the 12th century and the flat chevet from the 15th. The primitive edifice appears to have been constructed starting from the ruins of a Gallo-Roman villa, testified by pottery sherds found near the building. The single nave is divided into two bays vaulted with ribs and wall ribs. The bay supporting the bell tower is covered with a dome supported by pointed arches which take support on squinches and meet around a ring forming a bell opening, a fairly rare arrangement in Saintonge. The massive bell tower is divided into sections by columns joined by pointed arches. In the 19th century, major restorations are carried out: Victor Fontorbe devotes himself to the upper parts from 1843 to 1850; Eustache Rullier rebuilds the vaults of the nave in 1898 and creates a sacristy (1885).
Nearby in the register
- église Saint-Étienneéglise2 mi
- Église Saint-Fortunatéglise2 mi
- Ermitage monolithe Saint-Martialermitage2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.