The Notre-Dame-de-Valvert chapel, built from Annot sandstone, was once the church of a priory in Lérins. It is the austerity of this unadorned building in its rural setting that makes it its major attraction.
Description
The first mention of the church of Notre-Dame-de-Valvert dates from 1245, when the Bishop of Senez Sigismond gave the prior of Vergons, Guillaume, the property he owned there. But the chapel dates back to the first half of the 1353th century and was built in two phases: the first comprising the apse, the chapels and the last two bays of the nave and a second, immediately later, during which the first two bays of the nave were built. It was a modest priory: from the statutes of 1454, only a monk and a prior were required to reside there. In XNUMX, the priory was united with that of Angles. The village was in ruins in the XNUMXth century, the monk and the prior then ceased to reside there. In the XNUMXth century, when the inhabitants built a new church in the village, the Notre-Dame-de-Valvert church became a simple cemetery chapel and was abandoned.
Listed as a Historic Monument in 1927, the chapel was restored in 1929. The cemetery, adjoining the chapel, most likely dates from the construction of the church of Notre-Dame-de-Valvert.
source: General inventory of cultural heritage of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region