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Chapelle de Jailhac

Moussages, Cantal, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Claviers (cad. B 183) : inscription par arrêté du 30 janvier 1986
Protection dates
1986/01/30 : inscrit MH
Type
chapelle
Main period of construction
11e siècle, 12e siècle
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Lieu-dit
Jalhac
Commune
Moussages
Département
Cantal
Region
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Country
France
Coordinates
45.22419, 2.45073
Mérimée reference
PA00093558

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1780 map "14 Mauriac." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

A l'origine chapelle castrale, l'édifice devient ensuite paroissial (1519) , puis lieu de pélerinage au 19e siècle, époque à laquelle François Lesmariés, ermite connu, remet la chapelle en état et sculpte les stations d'un chemin de croix. La chapelle est antérieure à 1109. Elle se présente comme un édifice rectangulaire prolongé par un chevet en demi-cercle. Un perron de pierre semi-circulaire (19e siècle) donne accès à la porte surmontée d'un linteau sans ornement. Le clocher-peigne, achevé en angle taluté, présente deux ouïes romanes reposant sur un bandeau. A l'intérieur, l'abside voûtée en cul-de-four conserve la niche romane qui contenait la statue de la Vierge en Majesté, dite Notre-Dame de Claviers, aujourd'hui dans l'église paroissiale de Moussages.

English translation

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Originally a castle chapel, the building subsequently becomes parochial (1519), then a place of pilgrimage in the 19th century, an era during which François Lesmariés, a known hermit, restores the chapel and sculpts the stations of a Way of the Cross. The chapel is earlier than 1109. It presents itself as a rectangular building extended by a semicircular chevet. A semicircular stone perron (19th century) gives access to the door surmounted by an undecorated lintel. The peignoir bell tower, finished at a sloped angle, presents two Romanesque openings resting on a band. Inside, the apse vaulted in cul-de-four retains the Romanesque niche which contained the statue of the Virgin in Majesty, called Notre-Dame de Claviers, today in the parish church of Moussages.

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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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