Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Restes de la chapelle de Kermaria
Squiffiec, Côtes-d'Armor, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle de Kermaria (restes) (cad. ZA 81) : inscription par arrêté du 3 septembre 1927
- Protection dates
- 1927/09/03 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- Kermaria
- Commune
- Squiffiec
- Département
- Côtes-d'Armor
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.64392, -3.18968
- Mérimée reference
- PA00089663
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1786 map "Bretagne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Chapelle du 15e siècle, vendue à la Révolution à une famille qui l'acheta avec charge de la démolir ou de l'affecter à un usage profane. Un document de cette époque mentionne que la chapelle restait ouverte à la piété alors que toute célébration de l'office traditionnel était interdite. Après la conclusion du Concordat, la famille Le Bail restitua l'édifice à la Fabrique.
English translation
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History
Chapel of the 15th century, sold at the Revolution to a family which purchased it with the obligation to demolish it or convert it to secular use. A document from this period mentions that the chapel remained open to the faithful while all celebration of traditional worship was forbidden. After the conclusion of the Concordat, the Le Bail family returned the building to the Fabrique.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.