Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle de Varye, ou église Sainte-Colombe
Clion, Indre, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle de Varye (cad. A 679) : inscription par arrêté du 31 mai 1956
- Protection dates
- 1956/05/31 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Clion
- Département
- Indre
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.94157, 1.23330
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097325
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 1592 map "Topographia Aug. Turon Ducatus et confinium Gallia Cestica ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Cette chapelle a été construite par Guillaume de Varye pour être le sanctuaire privé du château de l'Isle Savary. La chapelle est placée dans le prolongement du bas-côté nord du choeur, soudée à l'est sur l'abside romane. Les trois clés de voûte portent les armes de Varye.
English translation
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History
This chapel was built by Guillaume de Varye to be the private sanctuary of the château de l'Isle Savary. The chapel is placed in the extension of the north aisle of the choir, joined to the east on the Romanesque apse. The three vault keys bear the arms of Varye.
Nearby in the register
- Château de l'Isle-Savarychâteauunder 1 mi
- Ancien manoir du Marteaumanoirunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.