Ste-Marguerite (Beaumont-du-Ventoux)

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Sainte-Marguerite in Beaumont-du-Ventoux
Lintel with inscription at the chapel

The Catholic chapel Ste-Marguerite in Beaumont-du-Ventoux , a municipality in the French department of Vaucluse in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur , was built in the 12th century. The chapel is located near the hamlet of Sainte-Marguerite.

architecture

The chapel is made of quarry stone, only the edge of the portal is made of stone . A stone was also reused here, probably from Carolingian times, on which a tree of life is engraved.

A small semicircular apse adjoins the nave . The roofs are covered with clay tiles. A bell gable sits on the gable roof .

At the chapel there are three fragments of a possibly Roman lintel with a Latin inscription.

literature

  • Guy Barruol: Provence novels. La Haute-Provence . Zodiaque, 2nd edition, La Pierre-qui-Vire 1981, p. 423. (without ISBN)

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Coordinates: 44 ° 11 ′ 1 ″  N , 5 ° 9 ′ 59 ″  E