Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle Saint-Rémy
Tinchebray, Orne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle : classement par arrêté du 20 avril 1944
- Protection dates
- 1944/04/20 : classé MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 1er quart 11e siècle, 1er quart 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Tinchebray
- Département
- Orne
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.76410, -0.72980
- Mérimée reference
- PA00110956
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
De l'église ne subsistent que le transept et le choeur à chevet plat. La nef disparue a laissé sa silhouette sur le mur ouest du clocher élevé sur la croisée du transept. Construit probablement au 12e siècle, cet édifice a été remanié à l'époque de la guerre de Cent ans. Le bras nord a été fortifié par l'adjonction de deux échauguettes à archères et mâchicoulis. La croisée est surmontée d'une tour romane terminée par une flèche de charpente modifiée depuis sa construction. Les trois travées du transept et celle du choeur sont couvertes de voûtes sur croisée d'ogives.
English translation
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History
Of the church there remain only the transept and the chevet with a flat chevet. The disappeared nave left its silhouette on the western wall of the bell tower raised over the crossing of the transept. Probably constructed in the 12th century, this building was reworked at the time of the Hundred Years' War. The north arm was fortified by the addition of two machicolated loopholes. The crossing is surmounted by a Romanesque tower terminated by a timber spire modified since its construction. The three bays of the transept and that of the chevet are covered with rib vaults.
Nearby in the register
- Ancienne prisonprisonunder 1 mi
- Église des Montierségliseunder 1 mi
- Filature de Rochefortfilatureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.