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Hôpital, ancien Hôtel-Dieu, ancien monastère de la Visitation Sainte-Marie

Pont-Saint-Esprit, Gard, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
L'hôpital, ancien monastère, en totalité (cad. BK 60) : inscription par arrêté du 4 août 2005
Protection dates
2005/08/04 : inscrit MH
Type
couvent, hôtel-Dieu, hôpital
Main period of construction
17e siècle, milieu 19e siècle
Later work
18e siècle
Architect or builder
Fontanille (architecte)
Ownership
propriété d'un établissement public
Address
9 boulevard Carnot ; rue Jean-Moulin
Commune
Pont-Saint-Esprit
Département
Gard
Region
Occitanie
Country
France
Coordinates
44.25396, 4.64998
Mérimée reference
PA00103162

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1695 map "Les Estats de Savoye et de Piemont (southwest sheet)." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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Monastère du 17e siècle. Les bâtiments hospitaliers ont été construits par Fontanille en 1850. L'ancien couvent présente les caractéristiques de l'architecture conventuelle urbaine des débuts de la Contre-Réforme en Languedoc. Les galeries du cloître conservent un décor peint, de même que les plafonds et solives. Ensemble de portes panneautées des 17e et 18e siècles.

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Monastery of the 17th century. The hospital buildings were constructed by Fontanille in 1850. The old convent exhibits the characteristics of urban conventional architecture of the early Counter-Reformation in Languedoc. The galleries of the cloister retain painted decoration, as do the ceilings and beams. Set of panelled doors from the 17th and 18th centuries.

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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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