Visit of the Templar Chapel of the Saulce of Island, Preceptory of the thirteenth century
Following the iniquitous trial that King Philip the Fair made to the Templars from 1307 to 1314, the Preceptory was attached in 1311 to the order of the Hospitallers who had a preceptory at Pontaubert.
During the religious wars, Protestants broke the windows and burned the roof in 1569. The roof was restored at that time, without the campanile, and the bays were walled.
From the time of the Revolution, the chapel began to serve as a stable, as a hayloft and as a dwelling. Several lean-houses supported it. Nothing is known about the gradual disappearance of buildings.
The Chapel was added to the Supplementary Inventory of Historical Monuments in 1926. It was classified as a Historical Monument in its entirety in 1960.
In 1971 Nicole and Georges Guette discovered the Chapel. They acquire it and undertake its restoration and development with the approval and under the direction of the Historical Monuments.
Please note: Delivery of a small file at the end of the visit. Access by road D 957 between Avallon and Vézelay, then private path of 1km.