Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle des Sept-Saints
Le Vieux-Marché, Côtes-d'Armor, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle des Sept-Saints (cad. B2 1110, 1111) : classement par arrêté du 24 mars 1956
- Protection dates
- 1956/03/24 : classé MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 18e siècle
- Dates
- 1703
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Le Vieux-Marché
- Département
- Côtes-d'Armor
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.63266, -3.42387
- Mérimée reference
- PA00089748
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailLionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public LibraryDigital Commonwealth, Boston Public LibraryIGN France — Géoportail
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
Chapelle du 18e siècle, dédiée aux sept frères dormants, martyrisés à Ephèse au 3e siècle. C'est une construction en forme de croix latine dont les ailes du transept sont surélevées. Un petit clocheton se trouve à la croisée des toitures. Le pignon ouest est surmonté d'un autre clocheton accessible par des marches sur le rampant. Cet édifice remplace une construction primitive dont a été conservée la partie la plus ancienne (caveau sous la partie sud du transept). Ce caveau, un ancien dolmen, est formé de trois quartiers de roches couverts de trois autres pierres, le tout en granit. Le caveau mesure deux mètres de large sur 4, 50 mètres de profondeur. Cette chapelle est l'unique témoin en France de ce culte aux Sept Dormants d'Ephèse.
English translation
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History
Chapel of the 18th century, dedicated to the seven sleeping brothers, martyred at Ephesus in the 3rd century. It is a construction in the form of a Latin cross whose transept wings are raised. A small bell turret is found at the crossing of the roofs. The western gable is surmounted by another bell turret accessible by steps on the ramp. This building replaces a primitive construction from which the oldest part was preserved (vault beneath the southern part of the transept). This vault, an ancient dolmen, is formed of three quarters of rock covered by three other stones, all in granite. The vault measures two metres wide by 4.50 metres in depth. This chapel is the unique witness in France of this cult to the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus.
Nearby in the register
- Dolmen dit de la Chapelle des Sept-Saintsdolmenunder 1 mi
- Manoir de Kerbridoumanoir2 mi
- Chapelle Saint-Fiacre de Runefauchapelle2 mi
- Chapelle de Christ et croixchapelle2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.