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Chapelle Notre-Dame del Roure, située au hameau de la Roure

Taillet, Pyrénées-Orientales, France

The record

Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
La chapelle en totalité (cad. B1 389) : inscription par arrêté du 7 juin 2006
Protection dates
2006/06/07 : inscrit MH
Type
chapelle
Main period of construction
12e siècle
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Commune
Taillet
Département
Pyrénées-Orientales
Region
Occitanie
Country
France
Coordinates
42.51423, 2.69606
Mérimée reference
PA66000017

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1662 map "Comitatus Ruscinonis, vulgo Rousillon, in quo Episcopatus Helenensis, Gallicè Evesché d'Elne ou de Perpignan / [Joan Blaeu]" (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Chapelle liée à une tradition populaire de vénération du chêne rouvre. Il subsiste un morceau de tronc de chêne qui serait un remède contre les fièvres. Les maçonneries de schiste datent du 12e siècle. L'abside en cul de four conserve des fresques de la fin du 12e siècle.

English translation

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Chapel linked to a popular tradition of veneration of the sessile oak. There remains a piece of oak trunk which is said to be a remedy against fevers. The schist masonry dates from the 12th century. The apse with oven vault preserves frescoes from the end of the 12th century.

Nearby in the register

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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