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Chapelle Notre-Dame de la Gorge

Les Contamines-Montjoie, Haute-Savoie, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
La chapelle Notre-Dame de la Gorge, sise route Notre-Dame de la Gorge, (cad. E 652) : inscription par arrêté du 22 juin 2015
Protection dates
2015/06/22 : inscrit MH
Type
chapelle
Main period of construction
17e siècle, 18e siècle
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Address
Route Notre-Dame de la Gorge
Commune
Les Contamines-Montjoie
Département
Haute-Savoie
Region
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Country
France
Coordinates
45.79207, 6.71524
Mérimée reference
PA74000022

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1607 map "Lombardiae Alpestris pars occidentalis cum Valesia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

La chapelle se situe au fond du val Montjoie à 1210 m d'altitude, sur la commune des Contamines-Montjoie. A partir de 1838, le pèlerinage de Notre-Dame de La Gorge retrouve son rayonnement, la chapelle est restaurée et l'ensemble des propriétés de l'ancienne paroisse aliénées à la Révolution racheté.

La chapelle est de porportions réduites. Orientée à l'ouest, elle se compose d'une nef unique de trois travées dont la première comporte une tribune et d'un choeur rectangulaire d'une travée. La sacristie se trouve derrière le choeur.

English translation

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The chapel is situated at the bottom of the val Montjoie at 1210 m altitude, on the commune of Les Contamines-Montjoie. From 1838, the pilgrimage of Notre-Dame de La Gorge regained its influence, the chapel was restored and the whole of the properties of the former parish alienated at the Revolution were bought back.

The chapel is of reduced proportions. Oriented to the west, it consists of a single nave of three bays of which the first comprises a gallery and a rectangular choir of one bay. The sacristy is located behind the choir.

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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