Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle du Bousquet
Ventenac, Ariège, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle (cad. C 834) : inscription par arrêté du 14 décembre 1995
- Protection dates
- 1995/12/14 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle, 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Ventenac
- Département
- Ariège
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 42.99513, 1.72974
- Mérimée reference
- PA00135440
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — Géoportail
3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1776 map "39 St. Lizier, St. Martory." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Chapelle édifiée aux 15e et 16e siècles, archétype de l'église de montagne pyrénéenne. Edifice de plan rectangulaire avec un clocher-mur à trois arcades. L'entrée principale s'ouvrant sur le côté est abritée par un large auvent prolongeant le pan de la toiture.
English translation
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History
Chapel built in the 15th and 16th centuries, archetype of the Pyrenean mountain church. Building of rectangular plan with a porch tower with three arcades. The main entrance opening onto the east side is sheltered by a wide overhang extending the roof slope.