Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Pitié
Longny-au-Perche, Orne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Pitié : classement par arrêté du 8 avril 1909
- Protection dates
- 1909/04/08 : classé MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Longny-au-Perche
- Département
- Orne
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.52994, 0.74921
- Mérimée reference
- PA00110837
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 LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid 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 chapelle se compose d'une travée voûtée à croisillons à laquelle est adossée une petite tour quadrangulaire. Choeur à cinq pans. Deux petites chapelles flanquent la nef à la troisième travée. A l'intérieur, les aretiers sont ornés de sculptures avec têtes d'anges et clef de voûte à pendentif. Vitraux du début du 16e siècle.
English translation
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History
The chapel consists of a bay with a rib vault to which is attached a small quadrangular tower. Choir with five sides. Two small chapels flank the nave at the third bay. Inside, the ribs are decorated with sculptures with angels' heads and pendant keystone vault key. Stained glass windows from the early 16th century.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Martinégliseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.