Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église
Bréel, Orne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle du 16e siècle : inscription par arrêté du 19 juillet 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/07/19 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Bréel
- Département
- Orne
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.81324, -0.39189
- Mérimée reference
- PA00110754
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 1750 map "Composite 4: Carte de France." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'église moderne conserve une chapelle de la fin du 15e siècle, destinée à la sépulture de la famille des Corday. A l'intérieur, des nervures courrent le long de la voûte. Les ornements se composent de pendentifs, de culs de lampe, de statues de saints soutenues par des consoles ornées.
English translation
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History
The modern church preserves a chapel of the end of the 15th century, intended for the burial of the Corday family. On the interior, ribs run along the vault. The ornaments consist of pendentives, corbel heads, statues of saints supported by ornamented consoles.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.