Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancienne chapelle de Rivray
Condé-sur-Huisne, Orne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle de Rivray (ancienne) (cad. B 57) : inscription par arrêté du 19 août 1975
- Protection dates
- 1975/08/19 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- Moyen Age, 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Condé-sur-Huisne
- Département
- Orne
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.39609, 0.86925
- Mérimée reference
- PA00110780
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 motte féodale entourée de ses fossés est un bel exemple d'architecture militaire antérieure aux donjons de pierre (10e et 11e siècle). Chapelle basse romane, couverte d'une charpente du 17e siècle. La chapelle basse est à demi enterrée, et formée de quatre voûtes d'arêtes soutenues par un pilier central. Cette chapelle est le seul édifice de tous ceux qui compostaient l'ensemble castral, qui échappa à la destruction. Elle était située dans l'enceinte de la forteresse, au pied d'un monticule qui devait être l'emplacement du donjon.
English translation
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History
The feudal motte surrounded by its moats is a fine example of military architecture predating stone keeps (10th and 11th century). Low Romanesque chapel, covered with 17th-century roof structure. The low chapel is half buried, and formed by four rib vaults supported by a central pillar. This chapel is the only edifice of all those which made up the castle complex that escaped destruction. It was located within the fortification enclosure, at the foot of a small hill which must have been the site of the keep.
Nearby in the register
- Motte féodale de Rivrayédifice fortifiéunder 1 mi
- Château de Villeraychâteau2 mi
- Manoir des Touchesmanoir3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.