Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle Saint-Rainier
Montegrosso, Haute-Corse, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle Saint-Rainier, à Montemaggiore : classement par arrêté du 15 mai 1930
- Protection dates
- 1930/05/15 : classé MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Montegrosso
- Département
- Haute-Corse
- Region
- Corse
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 42.54558, 8.87930
- Mérimée reference
- PA00099212
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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
Cette chapelle présente les caractères de l'architecture introduite dans ce département par les Pisans au 12e siècle. Son plan se compose d'une nef et d'une abside circulaire. Les murs en maçonnerie de granit taillé et appareillé, reposent sur un soubassement mouluré. A l'extérieur, la façade principale s'orne d'une tête sculptée en haut relief. La façade sud présente des dessins gravés dans le socle. Des masques grossièrement sculptés ornent, à l'intérieur, l'ébrasement de l'arc qui surmonte les deux premières baies de la nef. Des bancs en maçonnerie sont adossés aux murs latéraux de la nef dans les 2/3 de sa longueur. La charpente apparente est moderne et porte une couverture en tuiles creuses, tandis que l'abside voûtée a conservé sa couverture primitive en lauzes.
English translation
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History
This chapel presents the characteristics of the architecture introduced in this department by the Pisans in the 12th century. Its plan comprises a nave and a circular apse. The walls in dressed and coursed granite masonry rest on a moulded plinth. On the exterior, the main facade is decorated with a head sculpted in high relief. The south facade presents drawings engraved in the plinth. Roughly sculpted masks decorate, on the interior, the splaying of the arch which surmounts the first two openings of the nave. Masonry benches are set against the lateral walls of the nave for two-thirds of its length. The exposed roof structure is modern and bears a covering of curved tiles, while the vaulted apse has retained its primitive covering in stone slates.
Nearby in the register
- Église de Montemaggioreégliseunder 1 mi
- Chapelle San-Cervonechapelle2 mi
- Ensemble de l'ancien couvent d'Alzipratocouvent2 mi
- Chapelle Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur (San-Giacomo)chapelle2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.