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Chapelle Saint-Michel

Douarnenez, Finistère, France

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Designation
Historic monument, classified (classé)
Protection
classé MH
Extent of protection
Chapelle Saint-Michel (cad. I 1430) : classement par arrêté du 19 juillet 1957
Protection dates
1957/07/19 : classé MH
Type
chapelle
Main period of construction
3e quart 17e siècle
Dates
1664
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Address
place Saint-Michel ; rue du Port-Rhu
Commune
Douarnenez
Département
Finistère
Region
Bretagne
Country
France
Coordinates
48.09321, -4.33236
Mérimée reference
PA00089912

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1750 map "Composite 3: Carte de France." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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Edifice construit à partir de 1663, en forme de croix dont la tête et les branches se terminent en hémicycle. La façade ouest est percée d'une porte classique entre deux pilastres surmontés d'un fronton brisé au centre d'un mur pignon supportant un petit campanile classique. A l'intérieur, la voûte en lambris peints, décorée de 1667 à 1675, présente quatre blochets à la croisée du transept représentant des personnages du 17e siècle à perruque. Culot de poinçon sculpté représentant alternativement des têtes et des ornements. Sablières sculptées.

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Building constructed from 1663, in the form of a cross whose head and arms end in a semicircle. The west façade is pierced with a classical door between two pilasters topped with a broken pediment at the centre of a pignon wall supporting a small classical campanile. In the interior, the vault with painted boarding, decorated from 1667 to 1675, presents four corbels at the crossing of the transept representing figures of the 17th century with wigs. Sculpted puncheon corbel representing alternately heads and ornaments. Sculpted eave-boards.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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