Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancienne chapelle du Saint-Esprit, puis caserne Duguesclin
Auray, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé), in part
- Protection
- classé MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façades et toitures (cad. AP 523) : classement par arrêté du 4 novembre 1982
- Protection dates
- 1982/11/04 : classé MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- rue du Four-Mollet
- Commune
- Auray
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.66570, -2.98775
- Mérimée reference
- PA00090991
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailLeiden University Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1773 map "7me. Carte Particuliere des Costes de Bretagne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ce monument, fondé au 14e siècle par les ducs de Bretagne, appartint ensuite à l'ordre hospitalier du Saint-Esprit dont il fut le centre de l'établissement principal. Confisquée à la Révolution, la chapelle fut transformée en caserne au 19e siècle.
English translation
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History
This monument, founded in the 14th century by the dukes of Brittany, subsequently belonged to the hospitaller order of the Holy Spirit of which it was the centre of the principal establishment. Confiscated at the Revolution, the chapel was converted into a barracks in the 19th century.
Nearby in the register
- Maison du 16e sièclemaisonunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Gildaségliseunder 1 mi
- Ancien manoir de Kerdrainmanoirunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.