Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Couvent Saint-Antoine
Olmeto, Corse-du-Sud, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Couvent Saint-Antoine (cad. A 259) : inscription par arrêté du 8 mars 1991
- Protection dates
- 1991/03/08 : inscrit MH
- Type
- couvent
- Main period of construction
- 1er quart 18e siècle
- Dates
- 1717
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Olmeto
- Département
- Corse-du-Sud
- Region
- Corse
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 41.72388, 8.92151
- Mérimée reference
- PA00099138
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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 1756 map "Carte de Cassini (c. 1756)" (IGN France — Géoportail).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Fondé en octobre 1717 à la demande des habitants d'Olmeto, ce couvent de Capucins fut agrandi et put loger 24 religieux qui se consacrèrent à la prédication, à la confession et aux missions. A la Révolution, le couvent fut vendu, puis donné à la paroisse en 1860. L'édifice est entièrement ruiné. N'en subsiste que des éléments de construction qui, à l'est, s'adossent à l'église et, au nord, prolongent le chevet de celle-ci. L'église de plan rectangulaire se termine par un chevet plat. Un clocheton libre prolonge le chevet. A l'intérieur, deux chapelles latérales couvertes d'une voûte en briques, s'ouvrent à l'est sur une nef unique. Des pilastres scandent les deux murs latéraux. L'appareil est composé de blocs non équarris de granit et de briques.
English translation
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History
Founded in October 1717 at the request of the inhabitants of Olmeto, this Capuchin convent was enlarged and was able to house 24 religious who devoted themselves to preaching, confession and missions. At the Revolution, the convent was sold, then given to the parish in 1860. The building is entirely ruined. Only construction elements subsist, which to the east are set against the church and to the north extend the chevet of the latter. The church of rectangular plan terminates in a flat chevet. A free bell turret extends the chevet. Inside, two lateral chapels covered with a brick barrel vault open to the east onto a single nave. Pilasters punctuate the two lateral walls. The masonry is composed of unfinished blocks of granite and brick.
Nearby in the register
- Décors peints de la maison Perettidécorsunder 1 mi
- Ancienne église paroissiale de Saint-Albert de Calveseéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.