Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancienne chapelle des Capucins, dépendant actuellement de la Direction Départementale de l'Equipement de la Drôme
Valence, Drôme, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Ancienne chapelle (cad. AB 522) : inscription par arrêté du 24 octobre 1997
- Protection dates
- 1997/10/24 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Later work
- 2e moitié 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de l'État
- Address
- 4 place Laënnec
- Commune
- Valence
- Département
- Drôme
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.93546, 4.88928
- Mérimée reference
- PA26000003
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 1637 map "The Delphinate of France. Davphine par Iean de Beins" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Témoignage de l'architecture religieuse du 17e siècle à Valence. Couvent bâti vers 1620-1630, vendu comme bien national à un particulier en 1791. Décor peint du choeur de la fin du 18e siècle (fausse architecture et perspective en trompe-l'oeil). Au cours du 19e siècle, les bâtiments conventuels sont transformés en hôpital (existant jusqu'aux années 1970). Attribuée aux services de la DDE, puis désaffectée en 1991, la chapelle est utilisée comme salle de réunion, de travail, lieu d'exposition...
English translation
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History
Testimony to 17th-century religious architecture in Valence. Convent built around 1620-1630, sold as national property to a private individual in 1791. Painted decoration of the choir from the late 18th century (false architecture and perspective in trompe-l'oeil). During the 19th century, the convent buildings were transformed into a hospital (existing until the 1970s). Assigned to the DDE services, then decommissioned in 1991, the chapel is used as a meeting room, workspace, exhibition venue...
Nearby in the register
- Ancienne abbaye de Saint-Ruf "le Haut"abbayeunder 1 mi
- hôtel de villeunder 1 mi
- Pendentiforatoireunder 1 mi
- Maison des Têtesmaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.