Corme-Écluse

Corme-Écluse
Corme-Écluse
Location within Poitou-Charentes region  Corme-Écluse
Administration
Country	France
Region	Poitou-Charentes
Department	Charente-Maritime
Arrondissement	Saintes
Canton	Saujon
Intercommunality	Seudre-et-Arnoult
Mayor	Michel Marin (2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation	5–33 m (16–108 ft)
Land area1	17.49 km2 (6.75 sq mi)
Population2	1,006  (2008)
- Density	58 /km2 (150 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	17119/ 17600
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Coordinates: 45°37′55″N 0°51′12″W / 45.6319444444°N 0.853333333333°W / 45.6319444444; -0.853333333333

Corme-Écluse is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France.

The village is noteworthy to non-residents for its Romanesque church of the eleventh century, with a single nave and transepts with ogival vaulting. The massive crossing tower is supported on a vaulted cupola on pendentives. The richly sculptural west front, with a porch of three bays and an arcade above, was restored about 1860.^[1]

Population

Historical population of Corme-Écluse

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2008
602	627	598	651	686	758	1006

See also

• Communes of the Charente-Maritime department

References

• INSEE

1. ^ Charles Dangibeaud, L'arrondissement de Saintes (1905) s.v. "Corme-Écluse", p. 16.