Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Pendentif
Valence, Drôme, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Pendentif, à l'exception de la grille : classement par liste de 1840
- Protection dates
- 1840 : classé MH
- Type
- oratoire
- Dates
- 1548
- Commune
- Valence
- Département
- Drôme
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.93184, 4.88960
- Mérimée reference
- PA00117094
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1695 map "Les Estats de Savoye et de Piemont (southwest sheet)." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Monument funéraire construit en 1548 à l'emplacement d'un ancien cimetière, pour la famille Mistral. Il doit son appellation à sa coupole appareillée sur pendentifs. Disparition de la toiture d'origine en 1567. Edifice transformé en bûcher puis en cuisine de restaurant, avant d'être racheté par la ville en 1831.
English translation
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History
Funerary monument built in 1548 at the site of an old cemetery, for the Mistral family. It owes its name to its dome constructed on pendentives. Disappearance of the original roof in 1567. Building transformed into a woodshed then into a restaurant kitchen, before being repurchased by the town in 1831.
Nearby in the register
- Cathédrale Saint-Apollinairecathédraleunder 1 mi
- Maison des Têtesmaisonunder 1 mi
- Ancienne abbaye de Saint-Ruf "le Haut"abbayeunder 1 mi
- hôtel de villeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.