Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle Saint-Loup
Massay, Cher, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Voir notice PA00096834 : ancienne abbaye Saint-Martin
- Protection dates
- 1889 : classé MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Massay
- Département
- Cher
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.15137, 1.99265
- Mérimée reference
- PA00096835
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1761 map "10 Bourges." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Située dans la cour près de l'ancienne église conventuelle, la chapelle faisait partie de l'ancienne abbaye Saint-Martin. Après la suppression de la communauté, en 1735, l'église devint paroissiale en 1739 et la chapelle fut rattachée au presbytère qui l'utilisait comme grange, écurie et bûcher. Elle se compose de deux travées de voûtes cupoliformes soutenues d'arcs d'ogives diagonaux, d'une travée voûtée en berceau aigu et d'une abside circulaire voûtée en quart de sphère. Les chapiteaux sont ornés de rinceaux et de têtes. Les fenêtres sont en plein cintre ainsi que la porte, ornée de boudins en dents de scie.
English translation
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History
Situated in the courtyard near the former convent church, the chapel formed part of the former abbey of Saint-Martin. After the suppression of the community, in 1735, the church became parochial in 1739 and the chapel was attached to the presbytery which used it as a barn, stable and woodshed. It comprises two bays of cupola-shaped vaults supported by diagonal ribs, a bay vaulted in acute barrel vault and a circular apse vaulted in a quarter sphere. The capitals are decorated with rinceaux and heads. The windows are round-arch as is the door, decorated with sawtooth mouldings.
Nearby in the register
- Ancienne abbaye Saint-Martinabbayeunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Paxentégliseunder 1 mi
- Château de Chevillychâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.