Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle Saint-Gilles, au village des Forges
Fresselines, Creuse, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- La chapelle, en totalité (cad. BM 13) : inscription par arrêté du 13 février 2004
- Protection dates
- 2004/02/13 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 1ère moitié 17e siècle
- Dates
- 1631
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- les Forges
- Commune
- Fresselines
- Département
- Creuse
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.35830, 1.73071
- Mérimée reference
- PA23000011
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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, MunichDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1588 map "Ortelius, Abraham: Theatro De La Tierra Universal. 0" (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Edifice rénové au 17e siècle. C'est une modeste construction rectangulaire se signalant par un clocheton et des contreforts en blocs et petites dalles de micaschiste. La chapelle possède un lambris de couvrement peint d'un décor symbolique d'un type rare, sur le thème du Rosaire, daté de 1631. Son statut avant la Révolution reste imprécis. Une église est attestée en ce lieu dès le milieu du 12e siècle, époque à laquelle elle appartenait aux chanoines réguliers d'Aureil. En 1210, les moines cisterciens d'Aubepierre se firent céder le village et sa chapelle, moyennant un cens annuel. A la limite des 16e et 17e siècle, des transferts de biens laissent présumer que le lieu de culte pourrait avoir trouvé un patronage seigneurial.
English translation
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History
Building renovated in the 17th century. It is a modest rectangular construction distinguished by a small bell tower and buttresses in blocks and small slabs of mica schist. The chapel possesses a ceiling board painted with a symbolic decoration of a rare type, on the theme of the Rosary, dated 1631. Its status before the Revolution remains imprecise. A church is attested at this location from the middle of the 12th century, at which time it belonged to the regular canons of Aureil. In 1210, the Cistercian monks of Aubepierre had the village and its chapel ceded to them, in return for an annual payment. At the boundary of the 16th and 17th centuries, transfers of property suggest that the place of worship could have found seigneurial patronage.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.