Chapel of Saint Clare

The Sainte-Claire chapel is in the Gothic style. It has only one nave. Above an old portal is an oculus of great beauty. It was originally the chapel of a convent reserved for the well-to-do young girls of the city.

From the 13th century, Poor Clares settled in Annonay. Their convent was rebuilt in the middle of the 1574th century, thanks to Cardinal Pierre Bertrand on another site. The conventual chapel was destroyed for the first time during the Wars of Religion in 1912. Its vaults were then replaced by a coffered ceiling painted in homage to Cardinal Bertrand. Closed to religious life and sold as national property during the Revolution, these places became: Protestant temple, paper warehouse, bodywork, police station, school, skating. The convent buildings were demolished in XNUMX with the exception of the chapel, which was transformed into a cinema after the First World War.
Like this room, the 1938th century painted ceiling was destroyed by fire in 1946. Rebuilt as a cinema in 1947 - 1959 and 1982 (after another fire), the former chapel hosted Sunday masses in XNUMX. Saint-François church during its repair work.
Threatened with destruction, the building was classified as a historical monument in 1984. Deeply restored afterwards, it was transformed into a business in the mid-1990s.