Chapelle Saint-Jean de Tours

About

The Saint John Chapel is a former chapel dedicated to Catholic worship in Tours, in the department of Indre-et-Loire (France). It is located in the Old Towers, south-west of the former Basilica of Saint Martin de Tours in an angle of its cloister. Dating from the 13th century, it was listed as a historical monument in 1984.

The chapel is located in the southwest corner of the former cloister of the Basilica of Saint Martin de Tours, along the street Rapin which formed in the Middle Ages the track inside the enclosure of Châteauneuf. It is widely included in houses built in this canonial district.

A first chapel dedicated to Saint John is mentioned in Tours in the 6th century but the building visible in the 21st century is a 13th century construction resumed in the 14th century which replaces a chapel possibly dating from the 12th century. Damaged during the bombing of the city in June 1940, its interior was restored in 1968. Until 2016, it houses the Musée Saint-Martin whose collections included stone elements from the former basilica, works of art.