Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle Saint-Jacques de Saint-Léon
Merléac, Côtes-d'Armor, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle Saint-Jacques de Saint-Léon (cad. E 102) : classement par arrêté du 1er décembre 1908
- Protection dates
- 1908/12/01 : classé MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- Saint-Léon
- Commune
- Merléac
- Département
- Côtes-d'Armor
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.26379, -2.90701
- Mérimée reference
- PA00089327
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1708 map "Le Bretagne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Edifice construit au 14e siècle comprenant peintures murales et vitraux du 15e, lambris et autels de granit du 15e également et une chaire en bois du 16e siècle. L'intérieur est divisé par deux rangées d'arcades ogivales, en trois parties formant nef et collatéraux. La porte d'entrée est protégée par un porche ménagé dans l'épaisseur des contreforts. Au-dessus du maître-autel s'ouvre, dans le mur absidal, une grande fenêtre à meneaux et rosaces. Deux porches latéraux donnent accès à la nef.
English translation
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History
Building constructed in the 14th century comprising murals and stained glass from the 15th, wainscoting and granite altars also from the 15th and a wooden pulpit from the 16th century. The interior is divided by two rows of pointed arches, into three parts forming nave and aisles. The entrance door is protected by a porch formed within the thickness of the buttresses. Above the high altar opens, in the apsidal wall, a large window with mullions and roses. Two side porches give access to the nave.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.