Commanderie de Neuilly-sous-Clermont, commandry located in Oise, in France
The Commanderie de Neuilly-sous-Clermont is a complex of pale beige stone buildings with steep pitched roofs, including a chapel with a large pointed Gothic window with stone tracery and a square turret with a pyramidal grey roof. A building was completed in 1562, and a low stone wall with a round-arched doorway and blue metal gate stands in front.
The commandery was founded in the second half of the 12th century by the Knights Templar. After the trial of the Templars, it became in 1312 the house of Neuilly, attached to the Hospitaller commandery of Sommereux. Ruined by wars, it was rebuilt in the 15th and 16th centuries, and the surviving main building was completed in 1562. It was confiscated during the French Revolution with the order's other property.
The name Neuilly comes from the domain, and the house was attached to the Hospitaller commandery of Sommereux after 1312. The chapel, begun under the Templars and reworked in the 14th century, keeps remains of medieval wall paintings. Since 1961 the site has belonged to Jean and Maddy Ariès, who laid out the gardens from 1980.
The complex stands near the centre of Neuilly-sous-Clermont in the Oise, reached from the surrounding streets; a low stone wall with a round-arched doorway and a blue metal gate fronts the buildings. The gardens laid out from 1980 by Jean and Maddy Ariès are listed in the pre-inventory of remarkable gardens. The chapel, the 1562 building and the enclosure walls are protected as monuments historiques.
The chapel's medieval wall paintings were not made in the 1300s: the chapel itself dates from the Templars and was remodeled in the 14th century, when the murals were likely repainted. The gardens were created from 1980 by Jean and Maddy Ariès, owners since 1961; Maddy Ariès was chief curator at the Musée du Domaine de Sceaux.
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