Dominican Monastery of Carpentras

Former Dominican monastery

The former Dominican monastery in the French city of Carpentras was in the meantime a theater and now houses the city's tourist information office . The Gothic choir of the monastery church has been registered in the French list of monuments as Monument historique since 1932 .

history

The convent of the Dominicans in Carpentras was founded in 1312 and was at that time outside the city walls. The construction of the first church took a long time; it began in the early 15th century and was not completed until 1597 under the direction of the architect Blaise Lécuyer . A new cloister was built between 1642 and 1643 thanks to the generosity of the Archbishop of Bordeaux , Henri de Sourdis , who was exiled to Carpentras by Richelieu . The main building, south of the church choir, was built between 1722 and 1730 on the advice of the architect Jean-Baptiste Franquerenovated. The Dominicans left the convent in 1791.

In 1803 the nave was demolished to make room for living space. A large bourgeois house was built on the site of the nave. Only the choir and the Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire chapel remain of the church, which was built in 1650 at the expense of the Rosary Brotherhood . In the 19th century the monastery housed a barracks , at the same time the ground floor was converted into a theater between 1820 and 1822 and renovated in 1862 by a local decorator named Baldouin. In 1902 the building was restored by the city architect Bonnaud, he rebuilt the gallery on the western facade, which was in danger of collapsing.

See also

• List of the monuments historiques in the Dominican monastery of Carpentras

Web links

Commons : Former Dominican monastery in Carpentras  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Couvent des Dominicains de Carpentras , Archives de Vaucluse (French)
• Ancien couvent de dominicains , Observatoire du Patrimoine Religieux (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry no. PA00082002 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French), accessed on June 4, 2020.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Entry No. IA84000644 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French), accessed on June 4, 2020.

Coordinates: 44 ° 3 '9.7 "  N , 5 ° 2' 53.6"  E