Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle et logis troglodytiques de Notre-Dame-de-Lorette
Saint-Epain, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle et logis troglodytiques de Notre-Dame-de-Lorette (cad. XK 16) : inscription par arrêté du 21 octobre 1954
- Protection dates
- 1954/10/21 : inscrit MH
- Type
- ermitage
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle, 16e siècle, 19e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- la Grange aux Dîmes
- Commune
- Saint-Epain
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.13948, 0.63744
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098072
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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
Petit ermitage en partie creusé, en partie construit. La chapelle est presque entièrement creusée. Seule la partie sud est comprise dans une construction rectangulaire qui abritait l'autel. Des arcs ont été taillés dans les parois. Au-dessus de l'écoinçon séparant les deux arcs du fond ont été sculptés deux anges portant un écu. Au-dessus, le Père Eternel, un Saint Sépulcre et un Saint-Esprit figurent la Trinité. Le logis du chapelain est entièrement sous roche, et fermé par un mur percé d'une porte et d'une fenêtre. Il comprend deux salles.
English translation
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History
Small hermitage partly excavated, partly built. The chapel is almost entirely excavated. Only the south part is contained within a rectangular building which housed the altar. Arches have been cut in the walls. Above the spandrel separating the two arches at the back two angels bearing a shield have been carved. Above them, God the Father, a Holy Sepulchre and the Holy Spirit represent the Trinity. The chaplain's dwelling is entirely beneath rock, and closed by a wall pierced by a door and a window. It comprises two rooms.
Nearby in the register
- Ancienne aumônerieaumônerie1 mi
- Église paroissiale Saint-Catherineéglise1 mi
- Maison du Dauphinmaison1 mi
- Hallesmarché couvert2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.