Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle Saint-Gervais
Briouze, Orne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle Saint-Gervais (cad. AI 67) : inscription par arrêté du 24 mars 1975
- Protection dates
- 1975/03/24 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 11e siècle, 15e siècle, 18e siècle
- Dates
- 1093
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Briouze
- Département
- Orne
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.70388, -0.36955
- Mérimée reference
- PA00110755
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — Géoportail
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
Bâtie entre 1080 et 1093 par Guillaume de Briouze, la chapelle avait la forme d'une croix latine. Des restaurations ont été réalisées aux 15e et 18e siècles. En 1866, la nef a été raccourcie jusqu'à hauteur du choeur, et les transepts abattus. En 1867, le portail roman fut remonté contre ce qui restait de l'édifice. Le portail est formé de quatre colonnes que surmontent des chapiteaux qui présentaient des personnages accroupis, une tête d'homme et une tête d'animal. Dans le tympan des reliefs effacés représentaient un personnage qui serait, selon la tradition, Guillaume le Conquérant. Au centre, sur une pierre calcaire, apparaissent trois personnages sans doute martelés, qui figureraient les saints martyrs Gervais et Protais entourant leur bourreau. £Une absidiole semi circulaire prolonge le choeur. Cinq arcades à plein cintre en font le tour. Des fresques anciennes pourraient orner les murs, cachées sous le badigeon.
English translation
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History
Built between 1080 and 1093 by Guillaume de Briouze, the chapel had the form of a Latin cross. Restorations were carried out in the 15th and 18th centuries. In 1866, the nave was shortened to the height of the choir, and the transepts demolished. In 1867, the Romanesque portal was re-erected against what remained of the building. The portal is formed of four columns surmounted by capitals that presented crouching figures, a man's head and an animal's head. In the tympanum, faded reliefs represented a figure who would be, according to tradition, William the Conqueror. At the centre, on a limestone stone, appear three figures no doubt defaced, who would represent the holy martyrs Gervais and Protais surrounded by their executioner. A semicircular apsidiole extends the choir. Five round-arch arcades surround it. Old frescoes could adorn the walls, hidden under whitewash.
Nearby in the register
- Ponts sur la Rouvre, dits pont de la Motte, pont de Chênesecq, pont Neuf et pont de Raulette.pont2 mi
- Châteauchâteau3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.