Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
ancien couvent des Ursulines
Mende, Lozère, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Porte d'entrée : inscription par arrêté du 17 avril 1950
- Protection dates
- 1950/04/17 : inscrit MH
- Type
- couvent
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Address
- 13 rue de la Jarretière
- Commune
- Mende
- Département
- Lozère
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.51744, 3.49981
- Mérimée reference
- PA00103858
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 1636 map "La partie Septentrionale du Languedoc" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le couvent a été fondé en 1635. Un incendie le détruisit en 1905. La porte de l'ancien couvent est une porte dorique dont l'architrave offre cette particularité d'être remplacée par une balustrade. Cette balustrade est surmontée par un fronton triangulaire interrompu, dans l'axe duquel se trouve un balustre isolé.
English translation
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History
The convent was founded in 1635. A fire destroyed it in 1905. The door of the old convent is a Doric door of which the architrave offers the particularity of being replaced by a balustrade. This balustrade is surmounted by an interrupted triangular pediment, in the axis of which is found an isolated baluster.
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