Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle funéraire
Dampierre, Calvados, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- La chapelle funéraire en totalité (cad. C 26) : inscription par arrêté du 15 novembre 2010
- Protection dates
- 2010/11/15 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle funéraire
- Main period of construction
- milieu 19e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- Le Bourg
- Commune
- Dampierre
- Département
- Calvados
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 49.04336, -0.86729
- Mérimée reference
- PA14000089
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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 1760 map "94 Bayeux, Caen." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La chapelle funéraire, dont l'architecte n'est pas connu, fut construite à l'initiative de la dernière descendante de la famille de Longauney, Marie-Barbe de Longauney, au milieu du 19ème siècle. Elle fut vraisemblablement érigée lorsque l'église paroissiale ne fut plus en capacité de recevoir les dépouilles des habitants du château.£Cette chapelle funéraire est exceptionnelle, sans doute unique en Basse-Normandie, tant sur le plan architectural que décoratif. Édifiée sur des fondations de schiste, sa structure repose sur un plan centré surmonté d'une coupole en pendentif. La chapelle est remarquable par son style éclectique où se mêlent à la fois des références classiques et médiévales.
English translation
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History
The funerary chapel, whose architect is not known, was constructed at the initiative of the last descendant of the de Longauney family, Marie-Barbe de Longauney, in the mid-19th century. It was presumably erected when the parish church was no longer able to receive the mortal remains of the castle's inhabitants. This funerary chapel is exceptional, probably unique in Lower Normandy, both from the architectural and decorative standpoint. Built on schist foundations, its structure is based on a centralised plan surmounted by a pendentive dome. The chapel is remarkable for its eclectic style where both classical and medieval references are mixed.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.