Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Prieuré de Grandmont
Corquoy, Cher, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle (cad. C 175) : inscription par arrêté du 19 février 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/02/19 : inscrit MH
- Type
- prieuré
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- Domaine de Grandmont
- Commune
- Corquoy
- Département
- Cher
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.87641, 2.30117
- Mérimée reference
- PA00096779
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
Le prieuré de l'ordre des Grandmontains a été fondé entre 1140 et 1163, par l'abbé de la maison mère, Etienne de Liciac. La longue nef unique se termine par un chevet en hémicycle. L'église a été abandonnée dès le 16e siècle.
English translation
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History
The priory of the order of the Grandmontains was founded between 1140 and 1163, by the abbot of the mother house, Etienne de Liciac. The long single nave ends in a hemicycle chevet. The church was abandoned from the 16th century.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Martinégliseunder 1 mi
- Ferme de la Maison-Neuvefermeunder 1 mi
- Châteauchâteau1 mi
- Basilique Notre-Dame-des-Enfantsbasilique2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.