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Chapelle des Minières

Beaubray, Eure, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Chapelle, en totalité (cad. A 360) : inscription par arrêté du 8 janvier 1998
Protection dates
1998/01/08 : inscrit MH
Type
chapelle
Main period of construction
2e quart 16e siècle
Dates
1526
Ownership
propriété privée
Address
V.C. 34
Commune
Beaubray
Département
Eure
Region
Normandie
Country
France
Coordinates
48.91806, 0.91508
Mérimée reference
PA27000025

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1781 map "26 Evreux, Dreux." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Titulaire du fief des Minières depuis le 13e siècle, la famille de Postel a fait construire dans l'enceinte de son manoir une chapelle dont la pierre de dédicace porte la date de 1526 et en laquelle se sont fait inhumer les seigneurs des Minières. L'édifice, à volume unique, est de forme rectangulaire en pierre de taille et brique avec charpente à chevrons formant fermes. Bien que raccourci en sa partie ouest, il reste un témoignage d'une architecture religieuse de type seigneurial. Le choeur est éclairé par un grand vitrail de la Passion du Christ du 16e siècle. Un enfeu contient une remarquable Mise au Tombeau en pierre polychrome des années 1530. La chapelle conserve également une exceptionnelle statuaire de la fin du 15e et du début du 16e siècle.

English translation

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Holding the fief of the Minières since the 13th century, the de Postel family had built within the enclosure of its manor a chapel whose dedication stone bears the date of 1526 and in which the lords of the Minières had themselves buried. The edifice, of single volume, is rectangular in form in ashlar stone and brick with roof structure with chevrons forming principals. Although shortened in its western part, it remains testimony to a type of religious architecture of seigneurial character. The choir is lit by a large stained-glass window of the Passion of Christ of the 16th century. A recessed tomb contains a remarkable polychrome stone Entombment of the years 1530. The chapel also preserves an exceptional statuette collection from the end of the 15th and beginning of the 16th century.

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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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