Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle des Pénitents
Saint-Zacharie, Var, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle des Pénitents (cad. C 322) : inscription par arrêté du 2 décembre 1988
- Protection dates
- 1988/12/02 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 2e quart 19e siècle
- Dates
- 1844
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Zacharie
- Département
- Var
- Region
- Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.38500, 5.70800
- Mérimée reference
- PA00081728
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IGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesBibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1788 map "Li Governi del Delfinato e di Provenza la contea Venaissin ed il princip.to d'Orange" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Réunion des deux confréries des pénitents blancs et des pénitents noirs en 1691. Leur chapelle, reconstruite en 1696, fut vendue et rasée à la Révolution. Chapelle actuelle construite en 1844. C'est un édifice en moellons enduits, à nef unique et choeur à cinq pans pris dans un chevet semi-circulaire.
English translation
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History
Union of the two confraternities of white penitents and black penitents in 1691. Their chapel, rebuilt in 1696, was sold and demolished at the Revolution. Current chapel built in 1844. It is a building of rubble stone render, with a single nave and choir of five bays contained within a semi-circular chevet.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Jean-Baptisteégliseunder 1 mi
- Domaine du Moulin Blancdemeureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.