Trois-Palis
Trois- Palis is a West commune with 856 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Charente in the Poitou -Charentes.
Location
Trois- Palis is located about ten kilometers ( route ) west of Angoulême on the north bank of the Charente in the cultural landscape of Angoumois in the southern Charente at a height of about 30 meters above sea level. inst.
Demographics
Until the mid-20th century, the population fluctuated between 250 and 350; by the proximity to the city of Angoulême, significantly lower property prices, the population of the municipality have increased significantly in recent years.
Economy
The residents of the community lived for centuries of agriculture; but also several mills in which in addition to grains and oilseeds also wood and fabric scraps for making paper were ground, played since the end of the Middle Ages to the 19th century, a not unimportant role. The soils of the community belong to the Fins Bois of the vineyard Cognac, but the paragraphs in expensive wine fires in recent decades tended to shrink and also a large part of the municipal area is now built, so that the wine industry today plays no significant role.
History
The place was in the Middle Ages to a commonly used by traders and pilgrims ferry that connected the northern banks of the Charente with the opposite.
Attractions
The Romanesque parish church ( Église Notre -Dame) counts - despite the end of the 19th centuries by the architect Edouard Warin, a student of Paul Abadie, carried out restoration work - one of the architectural jewels of medieval architecture of the Charente. Apse and choir bay are externally divided by pilasters and entablature. Accompanied by a circular stair tower multi-storey central tower retains its square ground plan in the upper levels at - until a stone conical spire with exaggerated imitations shingle construction; in the corners there are four fialenartige essays. The Archivolts portal in the middle of the west facade is richly decorated with vegetal and figurative motifs. The divided by profiled wall templates in five fields zone above the portal is a made in 1893 by a charenteser sculptor representation of the Assumption of the Virgin with two accompanying figures, of which by their ' hairy garment ' than John the Baptist is characterized left; at the beardless figure right is St. John the Evangelist. A figural console frieze with a cornice with decorative scrollwork, lock the layer to the top. This usually always unadorned designed tympanum shows Christ as Pantocrator with arms outstretched in a square mandorla and surrounded by the four symbols of the Evangelists. The interior of the church presents a perfectly crafted masonry with lateral blind arches and a slightly pointed barrel vault; the nave and the choir clearly indented area are separated by a chancel arch. The building is recognized as a monument historique since 1886.
Portal
Assumption of Mary
Pantokrator and symbols of the Evangelists
- The Logis de Rochecorail is a building of the 16th century with later alterations.