Chapelle Sainte-Tunvel de Botlézan

English translation

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History

Botlézan means 'people of the Nun', and owes its foundation to Sainte Tunevel, sister of Saint-Idunet who placed his sister in a small hermitage around which a few houses gathered. Botlézan was under the jurisdiction of the bishopric of Tréguier. It is a chapel characteristic of Breton buildings constructed in open country, almost always near an ancient sacred spring. Begun in the 15th century, it preserves from that period the two first southern bays of the nave as well as the southern chapel. The rest of the building dates from the 17th century. The sacristy (1702) and part of the northern façade date from the 18th century. It is a building of rectangular plan with a flat chevet to which are attached, to the south, a porch and a chapel. On the western façade, in a low gable, rises the bell tower, rectangular, with an openwork balcony and bell chamber open surmounted by a hexagonal stone spire. To this bell tower is attached a round stair turret. The southern façade presents, at the western end, a small openwork ossuary with balustre, ornamented with a skull above two crossed bones and the inscription 'Rerat in pace'. Inside, presence of panelling. At the north-west corner, the baptismal font chapel is marked out by a stone wall topped with a wooden screen.