Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Collège Jules-Simon
Vannes, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- La chapelle (cad. BP 434) : inscription par arrêté du 25 janvier 1929
- Protection dates
- 1929/01/25 : inscrit MH
- Type
- collège
- Main period of construction
- 2e moitié 17e siècle
- Dates
- 1661, 1682
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- place Maurice-Marchais
- Commune
- Vannes
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.65892, -2.76035
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091778
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1607 map "Poictou" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Cet édifice servait de chapelle au collège des Jésuites avant la Révolution. Il fût bâti en 1661 grâce aux subsides de Mlle Catherine de Francheville dont un médaillon reproduit les traits au-dessus de l'entrée. La chapelle est de plan rectangulaire avec un choeur polygonal. La façade est de style Jésuite. La voûte a été établie en 1681-1688. A l'intérieur se trouve un retable monumental datant de 1685, oeuvre de Jean Boffrand.
English translation
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History
This building served as a chapel to the Jesuit college before the Revolution. It was built in 1661 thanks to the subsidies of Mlle Catherine de Francheville whose portrait appears in a medallion above the entrance. The chapel is rectangular in plan with a polygonal choir. The facade is in Jesuit style. The vault was constructed in 1681-1688. Inside is found a monumental retable dating from 1685, a work of Jean Boffrand.
Nearby in the register
- Hôtel de villehôtel de villeunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
- Hôtel de Limurhôtelunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.