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Chapel de Cosnay

The Chapel of Cosnay is nestled in the town of Lakes in central France. Referenced for the first time in 1155, it was part of a priory. Sold in 1793 as a national asset, it served as a dwelling before being left without maintenance. This Romanesque building is composed of a nave extended by a choir with a semi-circular chevet.

About this building

The Chapel of Cosnay is nestled in the town of Lakes in central France. Referenced for the first time in 1155, in a bull of Pope Pascal II, it was part of a priory that was located below the chapel. It then depended on the Curia of Lakes, then that of Briantes. Sold in 1793 as a national asset, it served as a dwelling before being left without maintenance.

This Romanesque building is composed of an almost square vessel covered with a broken cradle vault that is extended by a vaulted choir at the semi-circular chevet in the oven. The whole is covered in channel tiles. A barn, raised after 1841, occupies what could have been the location of a nave. The walls of the chapel are made of white limestone and dressed with carved modillions on the outside.

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