Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Prieuré de la Bouteille
Le Brethon, Allier, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle : inscription par arrêté du 17 novembre 1929
- Protection dates
- 1929/11/17 : inscrit MH
- Type
- prieuré
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Le Brethon
- Département
- Allier
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.57255, 2.68890
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093024
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 1632 map "Carte du Pais de Bourbonois." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Restes de l'ancienne chapelle du prieuré dont il ne subsiste que le sanctuaire et le choeur. Chevet plat avec ses trois fenêtres symboliques. Avant la Révolution le prieuré était occupé par des Bénédictins.
English translation
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History
Remains of the former priory chapel of which only the sanctuary and choir survive. Flat chevet with its three symbolic windows. Before the Revolution the priory was occupied by Benedictines.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Pierreéglise1 mi
- Château du Plaixchâteau2 mi
- Domaine du château du Creuxchâteau2 mi
- Château de la Landechâteau3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.