Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle priorale Saint-Léger
Piacé, Sarthe, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle (cad. ZL 7) : inscription par arrêté du 28 novembre 1988
- Protection dates
- 1988/11/28 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Piacé
- Département
- Sarthe
- Region
- Pays de la Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.26054, 0.10830
- Mérimée reference
- PA00109904
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Perchensis Comitatus : La Perche Comte" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La chapelle du 13e siècle, dépendant du prieuré fondé en 1090 au profit de l'abbaye Saint-Vincent du Mans, présente une qualité architecturale très pure dans ses percements et décors multiples (non restaurés au 19e siècle).
English translation
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History
The 13th-century chapel, dependent on the priory founded in 1090 for the benefit of the abbey of Saint-Vincent du Mans, displays very pure architectural quality in its multiple openings and decoration (unrestored in the 19th century).
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.