In 2020 > Sebastien Strahm
This old medieval barn of Cessay was located in a pleasant setting of forest and greenery, close to the departmental road linking Champagnole to Pontarlier, on the edge of the axis which led from the abbey of Mont-Sainte-Marie to the small town of Salins. The name of Cessay appears in 1200 in a charter which attests to the existence of this barn before 1200. It was initially a simple farm building intended to store crops before becoming a farming unit. agricultural and livestock including farm buildings and a chapel. This is mentioned on a plan of the buildings of Cessay from 1651.
The current chapel was probably built after the Ten Years’ War (1635-1644) or during a plague epidemic since it was dedicated to Saint Roch, a saint invoked against the plague. With the Revolution, the entire Grange de Cessay was sold and dislocated; the chapel remains but was used for agricultural purposes until the beginning of the 20th century.
It was the subject of a cleaning project and the roof was restored on the occasion of Cessay’s 800th anniversary in 2000. It is a small rectangular building lit by a bay and covered by a gable roof pans.
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