I have long been curious about a building on rue de Perigord, across the street from the Chapel of the Carmelite nuns and the city library. You can see it from google maps, from the air and from the street. The building is obviously a church, but until today, I couldn't identify it. I couldn't find it on old maps; it wasn't labelled on new maps. What could it be? I have often wondered.
So I was thrilled to find a new resource yesterday, a site for the urban history of Toulouse which contains links to all the major buildings in Toulouse, street by street. All one has to do is click on a link to discover the history of this building or that.
Thus I was able to learn today that this chapel was built in the neo-gothic style by architect Henri Bach in 1860, one of the buildings for a private high school, Sainte-Marie-de-Nevers, founded by the Sisters of Charity of Nevers in 1842. From its website, it appears that the school is still going strong.
It didn't show up on the old maps because it isn't that old, and I couldn't find it listed on the new maps because it is still private.
Do I have the orientation right. The rose window is probably the entrance to the church, and what we see from the street is the ambulatory? And the Carmelite church is at the top center of the photo?
Cool to solve it.
Posted by: neverted | November 26, 2012 at 06:49 AM