L'église Saint-Hippolyte est une église de style roman saintongeais située à Saint-Hippolyte en Saintonge, dans le département français de la Charente-Maritime et la région Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Location
1 explorer visited this place
718 m
Saint-Hippolyte is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France.
3.5 km
The canton of Tonnay-Charente is an administrative division of the Charente-Maritime department, western France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Tonnay-Charente.
It consists of the following communes:
3.6 km
Tonnay-Charente is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department, administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
In the 18th century, it was the home town of prominent Irish physician Dr. Theobald Jennings and his son, Irish-born French General Charles Edward Jennings de Kilmaine who fought in the American War of Independence and, more significantly, in the French revolutionary wars with Napoleon I of France. There is a personal portrait of General Kilmaine in the Hôtel de Ville of Tonnay-Charente. Rue Kilmaine, a street in Tonnay-Charente was named in his honour.
4.0 km
Trizay is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France.
Historique
L'église de Saint-Hippolyte fut construite en style roman durant la deuxième moitié du XIIe siècle mais le chœur a été aménagé à la fin du XVe siècle. Elle fait l'objet d'un classement au titre des monuments historiques depuis le 18 septembre 1995.