Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle Notre-Dame-des-Orties
Pluvigner, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle Notre-Dame-des-Orties (cad. AI 275) : inscription par arrêté du 15 juin 1925
- Protection dates
- 1925/06/15 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- place Mainlièvre
- Commune
- Pluvigner
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.77461, -3.01081
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091562
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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
Les parties anciennes de la chapelle remontent à l'époque romane. L'édifice a été agrandi deux fois, vers les 14e et 15e siècles. La chapelle se compose de deux parties distinctes séparées par un pan de mur transversal percé de trois ouvertures ogivales. Le choeur et ses abords sont la partie la plus ancienne. Le chevet carré s'ouvre par une fenêtre flamboyante. La nef appartient au 15e siècle.
English translation
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History
The old parts of the chapel date back to the Romanesque period. The building was enlarged twice, towards the 14th and 15th centuries. The chapel consists of two distinct parts separated by a transverse wall section pierced by three pointed-arch openings. The choir and its surroundings are the oldest part. The square chevet opens by a flamboyant window. The nave belongs to the 15th century.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Guignerégliseunder 1 mi
- domaine de Kéronicchâteau1 mi
- Château et parc de la Grand’Villechâteau3 mi
- Chapelle Saint-Fiacrechapelle3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.