Chapelle de Madame Cherbouquet-Badoit

English translation

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History

Maison-Dieu is a 19th-century bourgeois house accessed through an old 15th-century tower. Marguerite-Stéphanie Charbouquet-Badoit bought the house at the end of the 19th century. In 1884 she had a chapel built, accessible by a covered passage in the garden. The chapel has a single nave and a rectangular plan. The western wall is set against the main house. The east and north walls open directly onto the courtyard. The eastern wall is topped with a triangular gable decorated with an oculus and a cross. Painted by Aubin Hervier, the chapel presents itself as a picture book. Large-format figurative scenes are framed by floral and geometric friezes. The decoration is organized in three registers: a decoration of floral motifs framed by circles in shades of green; a frieze of scrollwork accommodating the Stations of the Cross then figurative scenes in rectangular panels. A concert of angels singing and playing instruments decorates the altar wall. The lower level is painted with a red curtain in trompe-l'oeil. The ceiling depicts the celestial vault with gilded stars painted on a blue ground. Stained glass by Lucien Bégule.