Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancienne chapelle priorale Saint-Mesmin
Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle priorale Saint-Mesmin (ancienne) : inscription par arrêté du 22 mai 1948
- Protection dates
- 1948/05/22 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.10978, 0.61624
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098084
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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
Le prieuré fut fondé en 1060 par l'abbé de Saint-Mesmin d'Orléans. La chapelle fut paroissiale au 13e siècle. De l'édifice, en partie détruit, ne subsiste que la croisée du transept et le croisillon nord, accompagné d'une absidiole. Voûtée en cul de four, cette dernière est épaulée par des colonnes contreforts. Son unique fenêtre est circonscrite par une archivolte décorée de pointes de diamant. L'abside, qui a disparu et dont l'arrachement subsiste, a été remplacée au 15e ou 16e siècle par une petite absidiole barlongue.
English translation
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History
The priory was founded in 1060 by the abbot of Saint-Mesmin of Orleans. The chapel was parochial in the 13th century. Of the building, partly destroyed, only the crossing of the transept and the north transept remain, accompanied by an apsidiole. Vaulted in an oven vault, the latter is buttressed by column buttresses. Its only window is circumscribed by an archivolt decorated with diamond points. The apse, which has disappeared and of which the scar remains, was replaced in the 15th or 16th century by a small oblong apsidiole.
Nearby in the register
- Maison du 16e sièclemaisonunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Blaiseégliseunder 1 mi
- Ancien châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Hallesmarché couvertunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.