Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle de l'Epinat
Varennes-sur-Fouzon, Indre, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle de l'Epinat : inscription par arrêté du 12 juin 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/06/12 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Varennes-sur-Fouzon
- Département
- Indre
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.20539, 1.55701
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097476
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 1768 map "30 Loches." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Reste d'un prieuré bénédictin, la chapelle a été transformée en grange mais est encore extérieurement bien conservée. L'édifice comprend un choeur rectangulaire non voûté, une abside en cul de four, et une nef simple. Le mur nord conserve une inscription indiquant le nom du constructeur et la date.
English translation
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History
Remains of a Benedictine priory, the chapel was converted into a barn but is still well preserved externally. The building comprises a rectangular unvaulted choir, an apse in cul de four, and a simple nave. The north wall retains an inscription indicating the name of the builder and the date.
Nearby in the register
- Garegare3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.