Saint-Rogatien () is a commune in the

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department in the

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in southwestern

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. Besides the town, the town includes the area of Casse-Mortier and part of the village Pommerou, shared with the town of Clavette.

Gallery

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Église Saint-Rogatien-Saint-Donatien

This

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built of limestone in the 12th century and renovated in the 19th century is dedicated to Nantes' two

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, partially destroyed during the Wars of Religion, it is largely late

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but retains its Romanesque portal and a

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trefoil recess. The choir stalls were rebuilt in large part to the late Middle Ages. A

granite Granite ( ) is a coarse-grained (phanerite, phaneritic) intrusive rock, intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly coo ...

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measure from the fifteenth or sixteenth century, is used as the church font. In 1871, a

bell tower A bell tower is a tower that contains one or more bells, or that is designed to hold bells even if it has none. Such a tower commonly serves as part of a Christian church, and will contain church bells, but there are also many secular bell to ...

was installed. In 1884, a restoration project was planned but didn't eventuate till 1987, when the facade was restored, the west weakened by weathering.

Population

Its inhabitants are called ''Rogatiens'' and ''Rogatiennes'' in French.Le nom des habitants du 17 - Charente-Maritime
habitants.fr

Map of the Commune

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