Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle
Saint-André-de-Chalencon, Haute-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle : classement par arrêté du 10 septembre 1913
- Protection dates
- 1913/09/10 : classé MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 11e siècle, 12e siècle, 15e siècle, 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-André-de-Chalencon
- Département
- Haute-Loire
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.28382, 3.98338
- Mérimée reference
- PA00092824
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1637 map "The Province and citie of Lions. Lyonnois forest et Beaujolois" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Sans doute à l'époque gallo-romaine, fut construit le petit fortin qui devint le château roman. Lui a été accolée une chapelle du 12e siècle ayant servi au village. A la fin du 17e siècle, la voûte écroulée a été remplacée par un plafond divisé par des moulures en une infinité de petits caissons ornés de fleurs peintes, de fleurons, de monogrammes. L'abside, ornée de cinq arcatures, a perdu deux colonnettes. Les colonnettes conservées dans le choeur présentent d'intéressants chapiteaux. Une silhouette de personnage dans le choeur permet de supposer qu'il a un jour été orné de fresques. La cloche porte la date de 1499.
English translation
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History
Undoubtedly in the Gallo-Roman period, the small fortified post was constructed which became the Romanesque castle. To it was adjoined a 12th-century chapel which served the village. At the end of the 17th century, the collapsed vault was replaced by a ceiling divided by mouldings into an infinity of small coffers decorated with painted flowers, fleurons, monograms. The apse, decorated with five arcatures, has lost two colonettes. The colonettes preserved in the choir present interesting capitals. A silhouette of a figure in the choir allows one to suppose that it was once decorated with frescoes. The bell bears the date 1499.
Nearby in the register
- Ruines du châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Vieux Pont dit Pont du Diablepontunder 1 mi
- Ruines du bâtiment dit La Préfecturepréfectureunder 1 mi
- Pont dit Pont de Bounerypontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.