Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Cimetière chinois de Nolette
Noyelles-sur-Mer, Somme, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Le cimetière chinois de Nolette (cad. ZR 50) : inscription par arrêté du 14 septembre 2016
- Protection dates
- 2016/09/14 : inscrit MH
- Type
- nécropole
- Main period of construction
- 20e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de l'État
- Commune
- Noyelles-sur-Mer
- Département
- Somme
- Region
- Hauts-de-France
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 50.18609, 1.72272
- Mérimée reference
- PA80000094
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailNational Library of Scotland
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1843 map "Carte de l'Etat-Major 1:40,000 (1820-1866)" (IGN France — Géoportail).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Aménagé en 1921 par l'lmperial War Graves Commission au lieu-dit de l'Argilière, sur les plans d'Edwyn Lutyens, le cimetière chinois de Nolette abrite les tombes de 814 travailleurs chinois au service de l'armée britannique pendant la Grande Guerre. Son architecture mêle aux normes habituelles des cimetières militaires britanniques des formes spécifiquement chinoises (portail d'entrée, motifs des stèles).
English translation
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History
Arranged in 1921 by the Imperial War Graves Commission at the location of l'Argilière, on the plans of Edwyn Lutyens, the Chinese cemetery of Nolette houses the tombs of 814 Chinese workers in service of the British army during the Great War. Its architecture combines with the usual standards of British military cemeteries specifically Chinese forms (entrance gateway, motifs of the stelae).
Nearby in the register
- Égliseéglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.