St-Marcellin (Boulbon)
The Saint-Marcellin Catholic Chapel in Boulbon , a French commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region , was built in the second half of the 12th century. The chapel has been a protected cultural monument ( Monument historique ) since 1904 .
history
The chapel , the holy Marcellus ordained , the resort is located west in a pine forest near the cemetery. A previous building from the 11th century stood in the same place. The year 1175 is engraved on one of the buttresses . Until 1628 the church was the parish church of the place.
architecture
The small chapel is made of dressed stone masonry and is powered by a ge wrong Erten gable roof covered. The semicircular choir has a roof made of clay tiles. A dome window carved from a block of stone with Christ's monogram , a blessing hand and a cross-bearing lamb comes from the previous building . A roof turret with a bell sits on the gable of the chapel . The small south portal has three archivolts , the outer one is decorated with a frieze of semicircles.
literature
- Jean-Maurice Rouquette: Provence novels I . Zodiaque, 2nd edition, La Pierre-qui-Vire 1980, pp. 32-33. (without ISBN)
- Guy Barruol / Jean-Maurice Rouquette: Travel routes through the Romanesque Provence . Echter Verlag , Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-429-01506-5 , p. 31.
Web links
- St-Marcellin (Boulbon) Description as Monument historique in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French text)
Coordinates: 43 ° 51 ′ 57.9 " N , 4 ° 41 ′ 26.5" E