Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancienne celle grandmontaine de Chassay-Grammont, actuellement dénommée "prieuré de Chassay-Grammont"
Saint-Prouant, Vendée, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- L'ancienne celle (cad. A 424) : inscription par arrêté du 31 décembre 1987
- Protection dates
- 1987/12/31 : inscrit MH
- Type
- prieuré
- Main period of construction
- 1ère moitié 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Prouant
- Département
- Vendée
- Region
- Pays de la Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.74871, -0.98568
- Mérimée reference
- PA00110263
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 1607 map "Poictou" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ancienne celle grandmontaine fondée par Richard-Coeur-de-Lion vers 1195. C'est le monument grandmontain le plus complet que l'ouest de la France ait conservé. Vendu comme bien national en 1791, il fut occupé par un fermier. La commune l'a acquis en 1981 afin de l'aménager en salle de réunion. Au nord de l'église, dont le berceau primitif a été remplacé par une charpente en 1637, s'ordonnent les trois corps de logis traditionnels : salle capitulaire à l'est, réfectoire au nord, aile des convers à l'ouest. Malgré la disparition du cloître, ces bâtiments, qui ont subi un certain nombre de dégradations, nous sont malgré tout parvenus dans un état de conservation archéologique très intéressant.
English translation
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History
Former Grandmontine cell founded by Richard the Lionheart around 1195. It is the most complete Grandmontine monument that western France has preserved. Sold as national property in 1791, it was occupied by a farmer. The commune acquired it in 1981 to fit it out as a meeting hall. To the north of the church, whose primitive barrel vault was replaced by a roof structure in 1637, the three traditional dwelling bodies are arranged: chapter room to the east, refectory to the north, wing of the lay brothers to the west. Despite the disappearance of the cloister, these buildings, which have suffered a certain number of deteriorations, have nevertheless come down to us in a very interesting state of archaeological preservation.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.