Corbiac chapel is a historic

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and former

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located in the French

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in the ''

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'' of

Pyrénées-Orientales Pyrénées-Orientales (; ca, Pirineus Orientals ; oc, Pirenèus Orientals ; ), also known as Northern Catalonia, is a department of the region of Occitania, Southern France, adjacent to the northern Spanish frontier and the Mediterranean Sea ...

, between the villages of

Molitg-les-Bains Molitg-les-Bains ( ca, Molig) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. Geography Molitg-les-Bains is located in the canton of Les Pyrénées catalanes and in the arrondissement of Prades The arrondissement of ...

and

Mosset Mosset () is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. Geography Mosset is located in the canton of Les Pyrénées catalanes and in the arrondissement of Prades The arrondissement of Prades is an arrondissement of ...

in the

.Chapelle de Corbiac
French Ministry of Culture database . Retrieved 2 July 2020. Its

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chapel was built in the 13th century with a single

nave The nave () is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. When a church contains side aisles, as in a basilica-typ ...

and equipped with a gallery from the late 16th century, and an

apse In architecture, an apse (plural apses; from Latin 'arch, vault' from Ancient Greek 'arch'; sometimes written apsis, plural apsides) is a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome, also known as an '' exedra''. ...

decorated with

fresco Fresco (plural ''frescos'' or ''frescoes'') is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plast ...

es from the 17th. At the end of the 16th century, the

Trinitarian Order The Trinitarians, formally known as the Order of the Most Holy Trinity and of the Captives ( la, Ordo Sanctissimae Trinitatis et Captivorum; abbreviated OSsT), is a mendicant order of the Catholic Church for men founded in Cerfroid, outside Pari ...

founded a monastery here. Several objects originating from the chapel are now preserved in the church at Mosset. In 1989, the buildings were bought by Rosemary Bailey, a British writer, and her partner. Their restoration of the property is described in Bailey's book, ''Life in a Postcard - Escape to the French Pyrenees''. Bailey, Rosemary, ''Life in a Postcard - Escape to the French Pyrenees'', London, 2002: 37 They sold the property in 2006. In 2000, the chapel was listed as a ''

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'' by the

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. It is privately owned.

References

External links

Ministry of Culture database entry for Corbiac
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