Corme-Écluse () is a
commune in the
Charente-Maritime
Charente-Maritime (; Poitevin-Saintongeais: ''Chérente-Marine''; ) is a Departments of France, department in the French Regions of France, region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, on the country's west coast. Named after the river Charente (river), Charen ...
department in southwestern
France
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.
The village is noteworthy for its
Romanesque church
Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of medieval Europe that was predominant in the 11th and 12th centuries. The style eventually developed into the Gothic style with the shape of the arches providing a simple distinction: the Rom ...
of the eleventh century, with a single
nave
The nave () is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. When a church contains side aisles, as in a basilica-type ...
and transepts with ogival vaulting. The massive crossing tower is supported on a vaulted cupola on
pendentive
In architecture, a pendentive is a constructional device permitting the placing of a circular dome over a square room or of an elliptical dome over a rectangular room. The pendentives, which are triangular segments of a sphere, taper to point ...
s. The richly sculptural west front, with a porch of three bays and an arcade above, was restored about 1860.
[Charles Dangibeaud, ''L'arrondissement de Saintes'' (1905) s.v. "Corme-Écluse", p. 16.]
Population
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Communes of Charente-Maritime
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