Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle Sainte-Agathe
Saint-Désiré, Allier, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle (cad. C 448) : inscription par arrêté du 29 octobre 1971
- Protection dates
- 1971/10/29 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Désiré
- Département
- Allier
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.49936, 2.46288
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093265
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
Edifice servant de lieu de pèlerinage, semblant remonter à l'époque romane. L'abside et les deux absidioles pourraient dater du 12e siècle. Le reste de l'édifice pourrait être une réalisation tardive suivant les principes romans. La chapelle se compose d'une nef couverte d'une voûte en plein cintre en plâtre sur lattis et d'une abside centrale flanquée de deux absidioles latérales voûtées en pierre en cul-de-four. Au-dessus de la travée occidentale s'élève un clocher carré couvert d'une flèche de pierre. Occupée par le maquis en 1944.
English translation
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History
Edifice serving as a pilgrimage site, apparently dating back to the Romanesque period. The chevet and the two absidioles could date from the 12th century. The rest of the edifice could be a later construction following Romanesque principles. The chapel consists of a nave covered with a round-arch vault in plaster on lath and a central chevet flanked by two lateral absidioles vaulted in stone in a cul-de-four. Above the western bay rises a square bell tower covered with a stone spire. Occupied by the maquis in 1944.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.