Rooms-Lavauguyon

Geography

Geographical location:

The city is in the area of the crater of the meteorite of Rochechouart; it confines in Charente. Located in the south-western part of the department of High-Vienna, between Charente and Tardoire, the commune of the Rooms-Lavauguyon occupies a restricted territory: 1175,89 hectares. Remainder, the borough occupies the center roughly of it, with approximately two kilometers of the communal limits. The surrounding communes are for High-Vienna: Videix, Chéronnac and Maisonnais on Tardoire, for Charente: Sauvagnac, Massignac and Verneuil.

Territory:

The commune of the Rooms-Lavauguyon extends on a slightly undulating plate which drops gently towards the grounds of the Oligocene inferior of the area of Montemboeuf. Altitude does not exceed 270 meters. Tardoire dug a steepsided valley which marks the limit separating the commune from the Lavauguyon Rooms of that of Maisonnais on Tardoire. The many sources of neighborhood are combined in small brooks which cross a cold and wet valley and will feed Tardoire. The villages of the commune seem also distributed around the borough. Mr. LAGARDE gives this description of it: " They are established on the healthy parts of the plates or even with hillside, on the slope Is valley of Tardoire the such village of Vauguyon built close to its feudal castle. These villages are: At Office, At Berthou, Ménieux, At Lafont, Raverlac, Vauguyon, Will plow up, Tixiéras, At Rambaud, the Royal ones, the Barns, the House of Bost, the Cabin, Loges."

History

Aymeric III, Viscount of Rochechouart, made set up the church of the Rooms in order to ensure the safety of its heart and as of his. In 1075, the church and its dependences were given to the chapter of Saint-Junien. The new foundation whose first prior is Boson of Rochechouart is a canonic community according to the rule of Augustin saint. In 1227, the prior became independent of the authority of the canons of Saint-Junien. During five centuries, the monks will follow one another until the XVIIIe century, time to which the priory is transformed into presbytery.

Administration

Demography

Its church

The church of the Rooms-Lavauguyon is without question a masterpiece of the Romanesque art poitevin. She inherits the severity which one knows with the Romance monuments and of lightness, of humanity suitable for the variation saintongeaise of the style. One recently saw the frescos of this ECRIN of beauty removed from the layer of plaster which hid them with the glances; the majority are renovated today. The building was completed in 1075, then increased at the 12th century; at that time, the western frontage was altered. The oral tradition reports that during the construction of the holy place, the borough was the seat of a flourishing industry of hats. It could be that it either because it is owner of the hatters that holy Eutrope is one of the owners of this church. The church contains a relic of the saint and the " good fontaine" joined with the old presbytery is supposed to cure rheumatisms thanks to him. One could see, less than one half-century ago still, a very old statuette of the saint at the entry of the building which shelters the fountain. Many statuettes which were in niches of the principal frontage of the church were also broken. The church was classified historic building on October 11th, 1907. The Romance frescos of Eutrope saint are among most beautiful of Europe. The scenes represented are very varied: that goes from the Creation of the world to the life of Eutrope saint without forgetting episodes of the legend of Martial saint and the portraits of the founders of the priory. They were " redécouvertes" between 1950 and 1953 by abbée the Fernand Combette, who was cleaned in the Rooms of 1947 to 1954. One day, he sees a blister in the plaster of covering of the wall of the side on the right of the stoup, with the height of the stained glass, between the stained glass and the wall of the frontage. However, concerned with the safety of its flocks, it is provided with large scales out of wooden which it supports on the wall and which it goes up. It succeeds in without too much sorrow withdrawing wall a piece of rather thick plaster. For its greater surprise, he sees appearing a black spot on the released wall; very quickly, the people present recognize two fitted feet which belonged obviously to a larger work. At the same time and in the same way, abbée Combette had discovered the traces of a polychrome work to the top of the gate of the principal frontage. The " were alerted; Historic buildings, section of Limoges" who did not worry first of all about the discovery.

Stage

See too

Common of High-Vienna

Sources

Certain information comes from a agricultural Monographie of the Rooms-Lavauguyon written by Mr. Maurice LAGARDE, some others of an article of Mr. Joseph DELAGE.

External bonds

Rooms-Lavauguyon on the site of the national geographical Institute
Rooms-Lavauguyon on the site of INSEE
Rooms-Lavauguyon on the site of Quid
Localization of the Rooms-Lavauguyon on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on the Rooms-Lavauguyon on Mapquest
Photographs of the frescos and article about them

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