Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle Sainte-Croix
Corte, Haute-Corse, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle Sainte-Croix (cad. AE 19) : inscription par arrêté du 6 septembre 1985
- Protection dates
- 1985/09/06 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle, 19e siècle
- Dates
- 1634
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Corte
- Département
- Haute-Corse
- Region
- Corse
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 42.30665, 9.14973
- Mérimée reference
- PA00099191
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1764 map "Plan de la Ville de Corte dans l'Isle de Corse" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Chapelle de confrérie, datée de 1634, appartenant aux Pénitents de la Sainte-Croix. Elle se compose d'une nef unique couverte d'une voûte à pénétration qui a reçu un décor peint au 19e siècle. La façade principale, à deux niveaux, est surmontée d'un fronton triangulaire brisé, lui-même sommé d'un clocheton à arcades. A l'étage, la serlienne dénote d'une influence italienne.
English translation
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History
Confraternity chapel, dated 1634, belonging to the Penitents of the Holy Cross. It consists of a single nave covered with a penetration vault which received painted decoration in the 19th century. The main façade, on two levels, is surmounted by a broken triangular pediment, itself crowned by a small bell tower with arcades. On the upper storey, the Serliana denotes Italian influence.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.