Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle Saint-Frézal
La Canourgue, Lozère, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle Saint-Frézal (cad. B 1159) : inscription par arrêté du 16 juillet 1984
- Protection dates
- 1984/07/16 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle, 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- La Canourgue
- Département
- Lozère
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.42914, 3.22647
- Mérimée reference
- PA00103803
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 1780 map "55 Mende." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Chevet et nef semblent remonter au 13e siècle. La façade ouest paraît plus tardive (16e siècle). Il s'agit d'une chapelle votive, de pélerinage, érigée pour recevoir le tombeau de saint Frézal. De plan rectangulaire, elle comprend une nef de cinq travées voûtées en berceau brisé sur doubleaux, avec arcs formerets et pilastres. Le cul de four de l'abside est inhabituellement plus élevé que la couverture de la nef. Les vestiges visibles d'une ou plusieurs portes à encadrement appareillé, en plein cintre, dans le mur sud, permettent d'envisager l'existence d'un immeuble dépendant de la chapelle, sans doute un prieuré.
English translation
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History
Chevet and nave appear to date from the 13th century. The western facade appears more recent (16th century). This is a votive chapel, of pilgrimage, erected to receive the tomb of saint Frézal. Of rectangular plan, it comprises a nave of five bays vaulted with broken barrel vault on doubleaux, with relieving arches and pilasters. The cul-de-four of the apse is unusually higher than the covering of the nave. Visible remains of one or more doors with ashlar framing, round arch, in the south wall, allow one to envisage the existence of a building dependent on the chapel, no doubt a priory.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Martinégliseunder 1 mi
- Maisons à pans de boismaisonunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
- Maison de Nogaret dite La Mansardemaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.