Chapelle des Trinitaires

The chapel was built in 1630.The nave of the Church, in late Gothic style, presents an apse five sides. The building is surrounded of a classical cornice with modillions and the center of its vault is struck of the Trinity cross, that it were found on the side pillars. A high-arched triumphal arch supporting the arms of Arles separates the chancel from the nave. It is lit by eight windows, including four today walled up, just like the three side chapels that opened on the West side. The façade, remade in 1884, is an eclectic style. Its large porch this arches of the voussoirs (carved stones corner) in very prominent bosses.A large window of Renaissance style, with pediment volutes and mullions and braces, is open at its centre, and a large pediment with denticles (tooth-shaped ornaments) overcomes all. Right and left, large settlements surround the chapel. The cloister consisted of a series of semi-circular arches lined a torus (round molding surrounding the base of a pillar) thick and a first floor, whose roof was supported by two Corinthian columns. Some remains are visible from the media library or the garden of the arts.HISTORICAL order of Trinitarians which was to redeem captives taken into slavery by Barbary, was founded in 1198 by St. John of Matha and St. Felix of Valois. It was established at the same time in Arles, between le Vieux-Bourg (today the rocket) and the Marshall. In 1199, John of Matha, returning from Rome, goes to Arles and recruits four fathers who founded the convent of the Trinitarians, which congregation was recognised officially as in 1203. Therefore, they were able to build their first church, completed by a cloister and a cemetery. Their vast land was truncated when the enlargement of the rampart in 1253, and especially in 1573 to the construction of the Hôtel-Dieu Saint-Esprit (current space Van Gogh). In 1630, the old buildings were razed, and was laid the first stone of a new Church and a new convent who received the word "Trinity and Saint-Roch. Disused and sold as national property during the French Revolution, it remains today as the nave of the Chapel and some beautiful galleries of the cloister elements included in the shops. The facade was rebuilt in 1884 by Auguste Véran.