Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle San-Quilico de Montilati
Figari, Corse-du-Sud, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle San-Quilico de Montilati (cad. D 335) : classement par arrêté du 7 juillet 1977
- Protection dates
- 1977/07/07 : classé MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Figari
- Département
- Corse-du-Sud
- Region
- Corse
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 41.51519, 9.16149
- Mérimée reference
- PA00099092
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IGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1783 map "Corse." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Cette chapelle, fondée au 12e siècle, est probablement une fondation seigneuriale. La tradition orale rapporte qu'elle aurait appartenu à Orso la Mano, petit seigneur local. La chapelle est formée d'une nef de granit jaune. Elle présente la particularité, très rare en Corse, de ne pas être recouverte de charpente, mais d'une voûte en plein cintre. Elle a conservé sa toiture primitive faite de "teghie". L'abside semi-circulaire possède également sa toiture et est éclairée par une fenêtre meurtrière surmontée d'un linteau sans décor. La porte occidentale est formée au moyen d'un arc en plein cintre sans linteau ni tympan. Le haut de l'arc atteint presque le sommet du fronton au point d'intersection des bandeaux moulurés qui soulignent les rampants du fronton et se prolongent tout autour de la nef.
English translation
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History
This chapel, founded in the 12th century, is probably a seigneurial foundation. Oral tradition reports that it belonged to Orso la Mano, a minor local lord. The chapel is formed of a nave of yellow granite. It presents the particularity, very rare in Corsica, of not being covered with a roof structure, but with a round arch vault. It has retained its primitive roofing made of "teghie". The semi-circular apse also possesses its roofing and is lit by a slit window topped by a lintel without decoration. The western door is formed by means of a round arch without lintel or tympanum. The top of the arch reaches almost the apex of the gable at the point of intersection of the moulded bands which underline the ramps of the gable and extend all around the nave.
Nearby in the register
- Ruines de la chapelle Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Prunochapelle1 mi
- Ancienne chapelle San-Agostino de Cherachapelle2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.