Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle Saint-Guillaume
Sainte-Gemme, Deux-Sèvres, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle Saint-Guillaume (cad. B 291) : classement par arrêté du 10 avril 1990
- Protection dates
- 1990/04/10 : classé MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 14e siècle, 1er quart 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Sainte-Gemme
- Département
- Deux-Sèvres
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.89224, -0.27997
- Mérimée reference
- PA00101334
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1579 map "(28) Andegavensium." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Selon la légende, un chevalier revenant de terre sainte et tombant épuisé à cet endroit, fut soigné par un ermite nommé Guillaume. A sa guérison, il fit voeu d'ériger une chapelle en ce lieu. Petit édifice à nef unique, choeur et abside semi-circulaire. La nef ruinée ne conserve plus que ses murs latéraux et sa façade occidentale qui s'ouvre par un portail sculpté du 12e siècle. Le choeur, refermé par un mur moderne, conserve des vestiges de peintures murales : Christ en majesté entouré d'animaux symboliques ; Vierge allaitant sur un fond de semis de rosettes.
English translation
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History
According to legend, a knight returning from the Holy Land and falling exhausted at this place was cared for by a hermit named Guillaume. Upon his recovery, he made a vow to erect a chapel at this location. Small building with a single nave, choir and semi-circular apse. The ruined nave retains only its lateral walls and its western façade which opens by a sculptured portal of the 12th century. The choir, closed by a modern wall, retains vestiges of mural paintings: Christ in majesty surrounded by symbolic animals; Virgin nursing on a background of a sowing of rosettes.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.