Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle de la Confrérie Sainte-Croix
Calenzana, Haute-Corse, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle de la Confrérie Sainte-Croix (cad. AB 239) : inscription par arrêté du 2 mars 1981
- Protection dates
- 1981/03/02 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle, 19e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Calenzana
- Département
- Haute-Corse
- Region
- Corse
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 42.50805, 8.85503
- Mérimée reference
- PA00099169
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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
Edifié au 16e siècle, l'oratoire fut remanié au 19e. La chapelle présente une façade principale scandée de deux pilastres et percée d'une fenêtre haute et d'une porte. Elle est couronnée par un fronton. La nef se termine par un choeur à chevet plat. L'intérieur conserve un décor de la première moitié du 19e siècle, composé de pilastres en gypseries et d'une corniche rehaussée de denticules dans le choeur. La voûte de la nef est peinte (Saint-Antoine Ermite).
English translation
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History
Built in the 16th century, the oratory was remodelled in the 19th. The chapel presents a main façade articulated by two pilasters and pierced by a high window and a door. It is crowned by a pediment. The nave is terminated by a choir with a flat chevet. The interior retains decoration from the first half of the 19th century, composed of pilasters in plasterwork and a cornice enhanced with denticules in the choir. The vault of the nave is painted (Saint-Antoine Hermit).
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Blaise et Campanileégliseunder 1 mi
- Église Sainte-Restitudeégliseunder 1 mi
- Ensemble de l'ancien couvent d'Alzipratocouvent1 mi
- Église de Montemaggioreéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.