Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle des Pénitents
Allègre, Haute-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle des Pénitents (cad. B 557) : inscription par arrêté du 30 janvier 1986
- Protection dates
- 1986/01/30 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 1ère moitié 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Allègre
- Département
- Haute-Loire
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.20071, 3.71182
- Mérimée reference
- PA00092570
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "La partie Septentrionale du Languedoc" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
En 1547, Jean de Mozac, prieur de Crevon (diocèse d'Evreux) fait don à sa ville natale, Allègre, de trois statues dont l'une de Notre-Dame de Pitié. Antoine de Mozac, son frère, riche bourgeois de la ville, fait élever un oratoire pour les recevoir. Cet édifice constitue le choeur de la chapelle actuelle. L'oratoire devient un lieu de pélerinage fréquenté. En 1650, une nef surmontée d'un campanile à deux cloches est ajoutée à l'oratoire. De 1651 à 1901, la confrérie des Pénitents Blancs s'y installe. En 1914, réfection de la toiture et de la décoration intérieure. L'édifice présente un plan rectangulaire, avec choeur à pans coupés et cul-de-four absidial dans lequel est percée une niche abritant la Vierge de Pitié du 17e siècle. Au nord, une porte destinée à la marquise de Flaghac, a été partiellement murée pour y loger deux tombes. Une litre funèbre illustrée de seize écus court à mi-hauteur sur toute la paroi intérieure.
English translation
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History
In 1547, Jean de Mozac, prior of Crevon (diocese of Evreux) made a gift to his native town, Allègre, of three statues, one of which was Our Lady of Pity. Antoine de Mozac, his brother, a wealthy burgess of the town, had an oratory built to receive them. This building constitutes the choir of the present chapel. The oratory became a frequently visited place of pilgrimage. In 1650, a nave surmounted by a belfry with two bells was added to the oratory. From 1651 to 1901, the confraternity of White Penitents was established there. In 1914, the roof and interior decoration were restored. The building presents a rectangular plan, with choir having cut-off angles and an absidal half-dome vault in which is pierced a niche sheltering the Virgin of Pity of the 17th century. To the north, a door intended for the marchioness of Flaghac, was partially walled up to lodge two tombs. A heraldic death band illustrated with sixteen escutcheons runs at mid-height across the entire interior wall.
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