Chapelle Saint-Jean de l'Ouradou

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The chapel Saint-Jean de l'Ouradou is located in Estaing, France. It is protected by historical monuments.

Location: The chapel is located in the commune of Estaing, in the French department of Aveyron, about one kilometre north-northwest of the village, on the edge of the departmental road 97. It is included in a farm body.

History: On the site of a former oratory, the chapel of the Uradou was built from 1524 and consecrated in 1529 by François d'Estaing, the bishop of Rodez. At the Revolution, it was sold in 1793 as a national good. The building was listed as historic monuments on 16 January 1997.

Architecture and furniture: The building is small, the nave occupies only one span. The choir, separated from the nave by a triumphal arch, is decorated with a altarpiece with a flamboyant Gothic niche. In it, a bas-relief of the first half of the 16th century made of carved stone was classified in 1936 as historical monuments. This sculpture representing the Baptism of Christ was restored in 1954. Also classified in 1936 and restored in 1954, a...