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Église Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Romain de Savennières, Medieval church in Savennières, France.

The église Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Romain is a church building with stone walls, featuring a western facade made of metamorphic blocks arranged in a distinctive herringbone pattern. The structure combines elements from different construction phases and demonstrates craftsmanship using locally sourced materials.

The nave was built around 427, between 362 and 519 by radiocarbon and luminescence dating, making it one of the oldest churches in the region still standing. Savennières is first named in the Life of Saint Maurille, who is said to have passed through around 450. In the third quarter of the 11th century the monks of Saint-Serge d'Angers bought the town's three churches, Saint-Pierre, Saint-Jean-Baptiste and Saint-Romain. The chevet was rebuilt in the second third of the 12th century, the roof frame in the 15th, and a north aisle added at the end of that century.

The church takes its double name from two of the three churches the monks of Saint-Serge d'Angers bought in the bourg in the third quarter of the 11th century: Saint-Pierre, the centre-bourg church, and Saint-Romain, a priory suppressed in 1773. In the 15th century it housed five confraternities and was the seat of four chaplaincies alongside the parish.

The church is oriented with the apse to the east and a generally cruciform plan; the entrance porch with red double doors carries a sign reading "Entrée libre", so entry is free. The nave, with its timber roof beams and rows of dark wooden benches, is the oldest part, dated by radiocarbon and luminescence to between 362 and 519, with a peak around 427. Look for the stone reredos with statues against a pillar on the right and the wooden confessional near a pillar on the left.

The building was one of the first structures included in France's protected monuments list when it was established in 1840. This makes it an important example of early heritage preservation efforts in the country.

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47.38291,-0.65677
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