Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle de Mels
Sainte-Geneviève-sur-Argence, Aveyron, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle de Mels : inscription par arrêté du 5 mars 1928
- Protection dates
- 1928/03/05 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Sainte-Geneviève-sur-Argence
- Département
- Aveyron
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.81113, 2.72833
- Mérimée reference
- PA00094152
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 1783 map "15 Aurillac." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La construction présente une nef terminée par une abside à trois pans. La façade est un simple mur surmonté d'un campanile à deux arcades abritées par une toiture. Un contrefort est destiné à abriter la porte d'entrée.
English translation
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History
The construction features a nave terminated by a three-sided chevet. The façade is a simple wall topped by a campanile with two arcades sheltered by a roof. A buttress is designed to shelter the entrance door.
Nearby in the register
- Croix du 16e sièclecroix monumentale1 mi
- Calvairecalvaire monumental1 mi
- Église d'Albinhacéglise3 mi
- Égliseéglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.