Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle Saint-Lazare
Buzançais, Indre, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle (cad. AS 35) : inscription par arrêté du 8 mars 1995
- Protection dates
- 1995/03/08 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- Saint-Lazare
- Commune
- Buzançais
- Département
- Indre
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.89778, 1.41964
- Mérimée reference
- PA00135293
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 1592 map "Topographia Aug. Turon Ducatus et confinium Gallia Cestica ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Cette chapelle est un reste d'une léproserie fondée au 12e siècle et réunie au 18e siècle avec l'hôpital de la ville. Construite à l'origine en moyen appareil, elle se compose d'une nef unique terminée par une abside en hémicycle.
English translation
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History
This chapel is a remnant of a leper hospital founded in the 12th century and merged in the 18th century with the town's hospital. Originally constructed in rubble stone, it consists of a single nave terminated by a hemicircular apse.
Nearby in the register
- Monument aux morts de la guerre de 1870-1871monument aux mortsunder 1 mi
- Pavillon dit des Ducschâteauunder 1 mi
- Chapelle de Beauvais, dite aux Bobineschapelle1 mi
- Domaine de La Brossechâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.