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Ancienne chapelle Saint-Jacques

Tulle, Corrèze, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
Protection
inscrit MH partiellement
Extent of protection
Façades et toitures (cad. D 458p) : inscription par arrêté du 14 juin 1972
Protection dates
1972/06/14 : inscrit MH
Type
chapelle
Main period of construction
17e siècle
Ownership
propriété privée
Address
45 quai Gabriel-Péri
Commune
Tulle
Département
Corrèze
Region
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Country
France
Coordinates
45.26372, 1.76576
Mérimée reference
PA00099914

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Aquitaniae descriptio" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Etape des pélerins se rendant à Saint-Jacques de Compostelle, cette chapelle circulaire, coiffée d'un dôme à clocheton, a été édifiée au 17e siècle. C'est un des derniers témoignages de ces rotondes. Au 19e siècle, le portail a été détruit et remplacé par un magasin. La chapelle était également appelée chapelle de la Barrière ou de Notre-Dame de Montre-Chemin car, vers l'Espagne, elle désignait le chemin de la côte du Carmel et du Périgord et celui qui traversait la Corrèze pour rejoindre Bordeaux. Sous la Révolution, la chapelle fut vendue comme bien du clergé. Un marchand de fer en fit son entrepôt. A la fin du 19e siècle est découvert un aqueduc passant sous la chapelle pour aller se déverser dans la Corrèze.

English translation

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A stopping place for pilgrims travelling to Saint-Jacques de Compostelle, this circular chapel, crowned with a dome with a small bell tower, was erected in the 17th century. It is one of the last surviving examples of these rotundas. In the 19th century, the portal was destroyed and replaced by a shop. The chapel was also called the Chapel of the Barrier or of Notre-Dame de Montre-Chemin because, towards Spain, it marked the path of the coastal road of Carmel and Périgord and the one which crossed Corrèze to reach Bordeaux. During the Revolution, the chapel was sold as church property. An ironmonger made it his warehouse. At the end of the 19th century an aqueduct was discovered passing under the chapel to pour out into the Corrèze.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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