Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Parties subsistantes de l'ancienne commanderie Saint-Jean-de-Jérusalem
Le Puy-en-Velay, Haute-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Commanderie Saint-Jean-de-Jérusalem (ancienne) : parties subsistantes (cad. AH 234) : inscription par arrêté du 23 juin 1978
- Protection dates
- 1978/06/23 : inscrit MH
- Type
- commanderie
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- rue de Vienne ; rue du Faubourg-Saint-Jean
- Commune
- Le Puy-en-Velay
- Département
- Haute-Loire
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.04646, 3.89141
- Mérimée reference
- PA00092746
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesBibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1777 map "89 Le Puy." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Les chevaliers de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem possédaient au Puy la commanderie de Saint-Jean qui se situait hors de la ville. Il s'agit d'un bâtiment fortifié avec créneaux, fossés et pont-levis. Les Templiers ayant été supprimés en 1312, les chevaliers de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem prirent alors leur suite dans tous leurs biens et obligations. Au moment de la Révolution, l'hôpital n'avait plus de commandeur. La commanderie a été pillée au cours du 19e siècle. De cette ancienne commanderie qui eut une grande importance en Auvergne au 13e et 15e siècle, ne subsistent que les vestiges de l'ancienne chapelle qui contient encore un enfeu abritant le tombeau dans lequel aurait été enseveli Artaud de Fay, grand prieur d'Auvergne. Les constructions comprenaient, sur la face sud de la chapelle, un bâtiment fortifié avec échauguettes d'angle, formant sans doute le principal de la commanderie, augmentée d'autres bâtiments sur lesquels ont été retrouvées fenestrelles à meneaux et moulurations gothiques.
English translation
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History
The Knights of Saint-Jean de Jérusalem owned at Le Puy the commandery of Saint-Jean which was located outside the city. This is a fortified building with crenellations, moats and a drawbridge. The Templars having been suppressed in 1312, the Knights of Saint-Jean de Jérusalem then took their place in all their possessions and obligations. At the time of the Revolution, the hospital no longer had a commander. The commandery was pillaged in the course of the 19th century. From this former commandery which had great importance in Auvergne in the 13th and 15th centuries, there remain only the vestiges of the former chapel which still contains a wall-tomb sheltering the tomb in which Artaud de Fay, grand prior of Auvergne, is said to have been buried. The buildings comprised, on the south face of the chapel, a fortified building with corner bartisans, forming no doubt the principal part of the commandery, supplemented by other buildings on which were found small windows with mullions and Gothic mouldings.
Nearby in the register
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- Maison Darmetmaisonunder 1 mi
- Couvent de Sainte-Clairecouventunder 1 mi
- Ancienne église Saint-Vozyégliseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.