Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Maison dite Maison des voûtes (ou des hôtes)
Souvigny, Allier, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Salle voûtée du rez-de-chaussée (cad. E 234) : inscription par arrêté du 17 mai 1982
- Protection dates
- 1982/05/17 : inscrit MH
- Type
- maison
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Souvigny
- Département
- Allier
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.53601, 3.19454
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093305
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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
Reposant sur des maçonneries romanes, remaniée à de nombreuses reprises, notamment aux 15e et 18e siècles, cette ancienne maison de Bénédictines possède une salle voûtée qui aurait servi de chapelle. Cette salle se compose de six travées, dont cinq sont voûtées d'arêtes retombant sur des culots, et la sixième d'ogives reposant sur des colonnettes. A l'extérieur, les façades montrent des percements dont certains sont d'époque romane.
English translation
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History
Resting on Romanesque masonry, remodelled many times, notably in the 15th and 18th centuries, this former convent house of Benedictine nuns possesses a vaulted hall which would have served as a chapel. This hall comprises six bays, five of which are vaulted with groin vaults resting on corbels, and the sixth with rib vaults resting on small columns. On the exterior, the façades show openings, some of which date from the Romanesque period.
Nearby in the register
- Maison dite Le Châteaumaisonunder 1 mi
- Prieuré bénédictin de Souvignyabbayeunder 1 mi
- Ancienne église Saint-Marcégliseunder 1 mi
- Maison forte dite La Matraymaison forteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.