Chapelle Saint-Léonce de Valderoure

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Location: The chapel is located in the French department of Alpes-Maritimes, in the commune of Valderoure, chemin Saint-Léonce.

The chapel Saint-Léonce was a former priory, dependent on the abbey of Lérins. A broken arch entrance gate allows access to the chapel, south side. A window on the west facade, 3 metres high, is called "Leper window". Originally, the land against the wall allowed the lepers remaining outside the chapel to attend Mass. A bentier sealed in the inner wall was accessible to them. Another bentier to the right of the entrance is at normal height. A arch in the middle of the hanger carried by re-use consoles separates the apse, choir of the chapel, vaulted in the cul-de-four of the nave. A re-used stone with leftover columnlets was built at the southwest corner of the chapel. The chapel has been restored. Outside was placed a partitioned Roman sarcophagus that constituted a four-compartment ossuary, each one being able to receive a urn. An inscription was engraved on the face...