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Chapelle de l'Arrier

Bourganeuf, Creuse, France

The record

Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Chapelle de l'Arrier : inscription par arrêté du 15 septembre 1937
Protection dates
1937/09/15 : inscrit MH
Type
chapelle
Main period of construction
17e siècle
Ownership
propriété privée
Commune
Bourganeuf
Département
Creuse
Region
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Country
France
Coordinates
45.95217, 1.75556
Mérimée reference
PA00100013

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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

La chapelle se compose d'une nef couverte par une charpente avec plafond, flanquée du côté sud par quatre petites chapelles voûtées en berceau. En 1573 la chapelle était une cure. Les Pénitents Blancs s'y établirent après l'avoir restaurée. Des parties anciennes sont encore visibles : baies en tiers-point, contreforts rappelant des voûtes disparues et ayant peut-être soutenu une tour de clocher. Dans le soubassement, à l'extérieur, deux écussons sur pierre sont des restes de pierres tombales.

English translation

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The chapel consists of a nave covered by a roof structure with ceiling, flanked on the south side by four small chapels with barrel vaults. In 1573 the chapel was a rectory. The Penitents Blancs established themselves there after restoring it. Old parts are still visible: openings with pointed arches, buttresses recalling disappeared vaults and which may perhaps have supported a bell tower. In the basement, on the exterior, two coats of arms on stone are remains of tombstones.

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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