Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Trescoët
Caudan, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Transept (cad. ZE 64) : inscription par arrêté du 12 mai 1925
- Protection dates
- 1925/05/12 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété d'une société privée
- Lieu-dit
- Trescouët
- Commune
- Caudan
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.82772, -3.31968
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091144
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 construite sur un plan en T, comprenant une nef, un choeur dans l'alignement des murs d'autel des transpets. Arcades de transept à colonnes avec arc presque de plein cintre. Une fenêtre avec lobes et meneaux éclaire le pignon du transept sud. Des écussons sont visibles sur les contreforts et à la naissance des archivoltes.
English translation
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History
Chapel constructed on a T-shaped plan, comprising a nave, a choir in line with the walls of the altar of the transepts. Transept arcades with columns with an almost round arch. A window with lobes and mullions lights the gable of the south transept. Shields are visible on the buttresses and at the springing of the archivolts.
Nearby in the register
- Fontaine de Trescoëtfontaineunder 1 mi
- Château de Bois-Jolychâteau1 mi
- Église Saint-Pierre-Saint-Pauléglise2 mi
- Croix du 16e sièclecroix monumentale2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.