Manoir de Keryar

English translation

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History

The manor itself is not dated but the date 1545 noted on the well accords well with the still Gothic style of the building. A document of 1817 indicates that the original covering was in thatch; it was replaced by slate at the end of the 19th century. The door which breaks through the elevation was pierced around 1930. The structure presents two perpendicular bodies of buildings, the rear body containing a vast spiral stone staircase. The building comprises a ground floor, one storey and roof space. The construction is in large-format ashlar stone and granite. In the interior, the renderings are in granite and schist for the other rooms. The monumental fireplaces are in granite. The front elevation, damaged by the modern piercing of a door, has two bays of moulded openings. The décor of the door, off-centre and corresponding to the staircase cage, is remarkable, with pilasters, pointed arch with crochets, pinnacles with honeycomb pattern and cornice; this décor clearly belongs to the Gothic tradition and more particularly to the style known as Louis XII, which appeared at the very beginning of the 16th century. On the left lateral elevation, one sees gun ports. Keyar, by its very massed volume, by the quality of the construction and decoration, is a good example of a small manor from the first half of the 16th century of Gothic tradition, of which examples are not so numerous in Brittany. The modern alterations which it has undergone do not seem to be irremediable.