Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle dite Chapelle Bleue
Felletin, Creuse, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle dite Chapelle Bleue (cad. B 51p) : inscription par arrêté du 23 août 1935
- Protection dates
- 1935/08/23 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- Moyen Age
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Address
- rue Coudert ; rue de Beaumont
- Commune
- Felletin
- Département
- Creuse
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.88418, 2.17461
- Mérimée reference
- PA00100063
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Marche, Limosin, Auvergne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Cette chapelle, bâtie pour la confrérie des Pénitents Bleus, se compose de deux travées voûtées sur croisée d'ogive. De grands contreforts, à l'extérieur, contrebutent les poussées. La décoration consiste en des culs-de-lampe et clefs de voûte armoriées, ainsi qu'une fenêtre avec nervures.
English translation
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History
This chapel, built for the confraternity of the Blue Penitents, is composed of two bays vaulted on rib crossing. Great buttresses, outside, counteract the thrusts. The decoration consists of corbels and ribs of vaults with coats of arms, as well as a window with ribs.
Nearby in the register
- Immeubleimmeubleunder 1 mi
- Maison dite du Baillimaisonunder 1 mi
- Immeubleimmeubleunder 1 mi
- Chapelle Notre-Dame du Châteauchapelleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.