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Origin and history

The Châtillon-Coligny Hospice found its origins in a Templar Commandery founded around 1171. The present portal, in Romanesque style, would go back to that period, while burials of knight templars would have been discovered in 1840 in the former adjacent necropolis, now transformed into a courtyard. The chapel, built in the 13th century, has a vaulted vaulted cradle and a 14th century fruit wall, reflecting the architectural evolutions of order.

After the dissolution of the Templars in 1312, the site passed to the Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem, who transformed it into a hotel-God around 1375. The north-west building, probably erected at that time, bears witness to this transition. The ensemble suffered a fire in 1569 during the capture of the city by Martinengo, then was repaired between the end of the sixteenth century and the beginning of the seventeenth. His decline began despite these works, until the king allocated funds for his maintenance between 1685 and 1696, entrusted to the Sisters of Lorris and then to Sainville (Eure-et-Loir).

In 1796, the building became a hospice run by the Sisters of Tour Presentation. The house was rebuilt in 1865, and the site now houses a museum of art and archaeology. The portal, the only item listed as a Historic Monument since 1929, recalls its medieval heritage. The brick and stone bays could date back to the restorations of the 17th-15th centuries, while architectural traces (bells, fruit walls) illustrate its multiple metamorphoses.

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