Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle Santa Maria
Cambia, Haute-Corse, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- La chapelle en totalité (cad. B 26) : classement par arrêté du 27 mars 2013
- Protection dates
- 2013/03/27 : classé MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Cambia
- Département
- Haute-Corse
- Region
- Corse
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 42.37409, 9.29042
- Mérimée reference
- PA2B000018
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 1783 map "Corse." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La chapelle médiévale présente une nef unique orientée, avec abside voûtée en cul de four. Elle présente un appareillage caractéristique de l'architecture romane insulaire. Sans doute a-t-elle été élevée au 13e siècle. Un campanile est élevé à l'aplomb du mur latéral sud. A l'intérieur, l'arc triomphal est clavé. En avant de l'abside existe toujours l'autel roman primitif formé de grandes dalles monolithes.
English translation
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History
The medieval chapel presents a single oriented nave, with an apse vaulted in a barrel vault. It displays stonework characteristic of insular Romanesque architecture. It was doubtless erected in the 13th century. A bell-cote is raised at the vertical of the southern side wall. Inside, the triumphal arch is keyed. In front of the apse there still exists the primitive Romanesque altar formed of large monolithic slabs.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.