Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancien monastère des religieuses hospitalières, puis ancien hospice, actuel hôtel de ville
Guingamp, Côtes-d'Armor, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé), in part
- Protection
- classé MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle, cloître et bâtiments en aile : classement par décret du 12 octobre 1913
- Protection dates
- 1913/10/12 : classé MH
- Type
- couvent, hospice, hôtel de ville
- Main period of construction
- 18e siècle
- Dates
- 1709
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- 1 place du Champ-au-Roy
- Commune
- Guingamp
- Département
- Côtes-d'Armor
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.56124, -3.14809
- Mérimée reference
- PA00089181
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public LibraryDigital Commonwealth, Boston Public LibraryDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1702 map "A new and correct draught of the CHANNELL between ENGLAND and FRANCE" (Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le couvent futt construit pour abriter les religieuses hospitalières arrivées à Guingamp en 1676. L'édifice servit d'hôpital jusqu'à la Révolution, période à laquelle il fut converti en prison, et la chapelle en écurie. En 1803, l'ancien couvent fut rendu aux religieuses, mais les salles des malades tombant en ruine, un nouvel hospice fut construit. L'édifice fut racheté par la ville en vue d'y installer la mairie. En 1914, les jardins furent aménagés en jardin public.
English translation
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History
The convent was built to house the hospitaller nuns who arrived in Guingamp in 1676. The building served as a hospital until the Revolution, during which period it was converted into a prison, and the chapel into a stable. In 1803, the old convent was returned to the nuns, but with the sick rooms falling into ruin, a new hospice was built. The building was repurchased by the town with a view to installing the town hall. In 1914, the gardens were laid out as a public park.
Nearby in the register
- Couvent des Ursulinescouventunder 1 mi
- Ancienne prisonprisonunder 1 mi
- Hôtelunder 1 mi
- Restes du château de Pierre IIchâteauunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.