St-Martin (La Ferté-Gaucher)

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Saint-Martin chapel in La Ferté-Gaucher
West facade with entrance

The Saint-Martin chapel in La Ferté-Gaucher , a French commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region , was built in the 11th century. The secular chapel on Rue du Prieuré has been on the list of architectural monuments in France as Monument historique since 2004 .

The chapel belonged to a former priory that was founded in the 11th century and closed during the Revolution . The priory consists of an ensemble of buildings with a chapel, tithe barn , manoir and outbuildings. It is protected between two arms of the Grand Morin .

The Romanesque chapel with three bays and two small aisles was converted into a barn in 1865 .

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Seine-et-Marne. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-100-7 , p. 511.

Web links

Commons : St-Martin (La Ferté-Gaucher)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Chapelle Saint-Martin de La Ferté-Gaucher in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 49.3 "  N , 3 ° 18 ′ 31.7"  E