Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle de la Tour Pourçain
Barrais-Bussolles, Allier, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle de la Tour Pourçain : inscription par arrêté du 22 septembre 1937
- Protection dates
- 1937/09/22 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle, 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété d'une association
- Commune
- Barrais-Bussolles
- Département
- Allier
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.29208, 3.72912
- Mérimée reference
- PA00092983
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1632 map "Carte du Pais de Bourbonois." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Maison forte convertie en chapelle en 1926. L'édifice comprenait trois étages munis chacun d'une cheminée qui permettent de dater l'édifice du 14e siècle. Le rez-de-chaussée est voûté. Une croisée à meneaux permet d'éclairer l'intérieur qui comprend une cheminée sculptée en grès et un four à pain. Le dernier étage était sans doute surmonté d'une terrasse crénelée. En partie rasé, il fut remplacé par une toiture qui s'effondra en 1920. Cette tour, primitivement appelée "Tour des Pousins", dépendait du château de la Motte-Bar et protégeait la route d'Autun à Clermont. Le monticule sur lequel elle se dressait, devait être entouré d'eau.
English translation
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History
Strong house converted into a chapel in 1926. The building comprised three storeys each equipped with a fireplace which allows the building to be dated to the 14th century. The ground floor is vaulted. A mullioned window allows light into the interior which comprises a fireplace carved in sandstone and a bread oven. The top storey was undoubtedly surmounted by a crenellated terrace. Partly razed, it was replaced by a roof which collapsed in 1920. This tower, originally called "Tour des Pousins", depended on the castle of la Motte-Bar and protected the road from Autun to Clermont. The mound on which it stood was undoubtedly surrounded by water.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.