Maison dite à lanterne

English translation

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History

A fairly complete rare example of this type of house typical of Morlaix, called a lantern house, built between the 15th and 17th centuries and reserved for the local bourgeoisie, among whom one found chiefly weavers and shipowners. Its particularity is to be divided into three parts: a building fronting the street whose corbelled façade is decorated with statues, an interior courtyard lit in part by a glazed roof and from which a large wooden spiral staircase serves all the storeys, and finally the building connected by wooden footbridges called allée bridges. The building is entirely constructed in timber framing, except for the ground floor in granite. The sill beams are moulded, the uprights are decorated with small columns and the main rooms are adorned with niches and small statues among which are the Virgin and the Angel of the Annunciation, Saint James, Saint Lawrence, Saint Nicholas and Saint Barbara. The staircase placed on the interior courtyard consists of a core of a single piece and is completely open to the exterior. The railings are decorated with panels of serviettes, the post which connects them to the galleries of the storeys bears sculptures, and it terminates with a fine statue of Saint John the Evangelist.