Cressac-Saint-Genis
See also: Cressac
Cressac-Saint-Genis is a common French, located in the department of the Charente and the area Poitou-Charentes. Its inhabitants is called the cressacais and cressacaises .
Geography
History
The communes of Cressac and Saint-Genis amalgamated the 01.01.1973
Administration
list former mayors
Demography
Places and monuments
Commandery templière
See also: Commanderie de Cressac
The vault of the Templiers of the 12th century was registered the May 9th 1914 and was classified historic building in 1992. There the presence of a well never dry, made it possible a modest commandery to be installed, on the way of the Pèlerinage of Saint-Jacques-to-Compostelle. The vault was built between 1150 and 1160 and are the only remaining building. It is of rectangular plan, with shouldered thick walls of buttresses, and its southern wall presents on a stone the mark in hollow of a hand of penitent, each one of them having to rub this stone.
The interior of this vault is remarkable because its walls north, is and western are decorated of several Fresque S concerning Templiers: scenes of the victory of cross and franque army of Hugues the Brown one of Lusignan and Geoffroy Martel (brother of Guillaume Taillefert count d' Angoulême) on Sarrazins carried out by Nourreddine, in the plain of Bocquée, in 1163.
Do these frescos represent riders out of weapons, as well as other subjects of which a boat (nave templière?) These frescos are made by application of a local red clay related to the egg white, whose color resisted time. These paintings were carried out in several stages by different artists: on the northern wall, in first the plank the top which tells a battle, later the plank of the bottom which would represent an prisoner exchange and after a decoration of planks the ones geometrical, the others in rinceau, which mask by place the top of the heaumes and the shoes of the horses.
This vault belonged to a whole of buildings forming a modest commandery. They were given to other orders which gave up them and did not maintain them, and only the vault resisted. With the Revolution, it was sold like Bien national and was used then as agricultural building.
It was bought at the beginning of the 20th century by the Protestant church of Barbezieux, was given in state and serves as since place of worship what explains the presence of a cross huguenote in the center of the southern wall which does not present or more fresco.
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