Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Vieux-Château, dite chapelle Saint-Santin
Bellême, Orne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- La crypte (cad. AI 47) : inscription par arrêté du 23 septembre 1971
- Protection dates
- 1971/09/23 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 10e siècle, 12e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Bellême
- Département
- Orne
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.37433, 0.55973
- Mérimée reference
- PA00110740
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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
Chapelle fondée dans la seconde moitié du 10e siècle. A l'origine, la chapelle aurait été desservie par les moines de Marmoutiers. Le choeur est construit au-dessus d'une crypte, construction très primitive, voûtée en berceau. Cette crypte semble se rattacher aux origines de la chapelle et c'est sans doute là que fut inhumé Yves de Creil, seigneur de Belleme, et son épouse en 997. L'édifice souffrit des guerres de l'époque de la Normandie indépendante. Elle fut certainement reprise partiellement au 12e siècle. Au 15e siècle, elle subit d'autres transformations. A cette époque, l'extrémité Est de la nef et une partie du choeur ont dû être reconstruits. A la fin du 15e siècle, aménagement intérieur de la chapelle. A la Révolution, elle fut vendue comme bien national.
English translation
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History
Chapel founded in the second half of the 10th century. Originally, the chapel would have been served by the monks of Marmoutiers. The choir is built above a crypt, a very primitive construction, vaulted with a barrel vault. This crypt seems to belong to the origins of the chapel and it is probably there that Yves de Creil, lord of Belleme, and his wife were buried in 997. The building suffered from the wars of the period of independent Normandy. It was certainly partially rebuilt in the 12th century. In the 15th century, it underwent other transformations. At this time, the eastern extremity of the nave and part of the choir had to be rebuilt. At the end of the 15th century, interior arrangement of the chapel. At the Revolution, it was sold as national property.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Sauveurégliseunder 1 mi
- Ville Closeporte de villeunder 1 mi
- Maison du Gouverneurmaisonunder 1 mi
- Tour de l'Horlogeédifice fortifiéunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.