Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église
Vellèches, Vienne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- L'église en totalité (cad. C 45) : inscription par arrêté du 21 mai 2001
- Protection dates
- 2001/05/21 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Vellèches
- Département
- Vienne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.94215, 0.53201
- Mérimée reference
- PA86000012
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1592 map "Topographia Aug. Turon Ducatus et confinium Gallia Cestica ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Edifice de transition entre l'art roman et l'art gothique. Eglise érigée sans doute à la fin du 12e siècle en pierre de tuffeau appareillée. Une chapelle latérale sud, fondée au milieu du 14e siècle, a disparu vraisemblablement dans les destructions du 16e siècle. L'édifice se présente comme une nef unique lambrissée précédée d'un porche qui abrite un portail d'aspect roman, et terminée par un choeur composé d'une travée voûtée d'ogive et d'un abside en cul de four. A l'extérieur, masques ornant les modillons de la corniche sud. Le portail d'entrée correspond à la façade primitive.
English translation
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History
Building of transition between Romanesque and Gothic art. Church erected probably at the end of the 12th century in ashlar tuffeau stone. A south lateral chapel, founded in the mid-14th century, disappeared probably in the destructions of the 16th century. The building presents itself as a single nave with panelling preceded by a porch which shelters a portal of Romanesque aspect, and ended by a choir composed of a bay with rib vault and an apse with cul-de-four. Externally, masks adorning the modillions of the south cornice. The entrance portal corresponds to the original façade.
Nearby in the register
- Gentilhommière de la Riemanoirunder 1 mi
- Château de Marmandechâteau1 mi
- Église Saint-Martinéglise1 mi
- Châteauchâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.