Chapelle Notre-Dame-des-Grâces de Plampinet

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The Notre-Dame-des-Grâces chapel of Plampinet or Notre-Dame-des-Grâces chapel of Névache is a Catholic church located in the village of Plampinet, in the commune of Névache, in the French department of Hautes-Alpes. Remarkable by its frescoes, it is classified as a historical monument.

Building: It is a chapel in the village of Plampinet, built with rubble bursting with black stone. Covered with a coating, it consists of a single nave with a cul-de-four apse and an arcade bell tower. It has a three-sided interior ceiling. This chapel is small: the nave is about 8.5 m long for 5.25 m wide. The semicircular choir is about 2.5 m deep. The building has only one window, open southwest. It has a bell melted in 1761, bearing the inscription: "Our DAME OF GREAT PRAYERS FOR US MR MERLIN CURE. VALLIER FECIT 1761", which is 31 cm high and has a diameter of 42 cm.

Fresques: It is decorated with frescoes dated from the middle and second half of the 15th century. In the choir remain traces of a representation of a Virgin in majesty. On the west wall, a fresco depicts the...