Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle et fontaine de la Trinité
Cléguérec, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle et fontaine de la Trinité (cad. YL 10, 11) : inscription par arrêté du 17 septembre 1973
- Protection dates
- 1973/09/17 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle, 2e quart 18e siècle
- Dates
- 1728
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- la Trinité
- Commune
- Cléguérec
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.11957, -3.09068
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091159
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1787 map "157 Uzel." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La chapelle est un petit édifice en granit d'appareil simple. Fenêtres du 16e siècle. Fleur de lys sur la façade sud. Façade occidentale encadrée de contreforts d'angle à pinacles flamboyants et couronnée d'un clocheton bas formé d'une petite flèche dressée sur colonnettes cylindriques. Portail classique à fronton triangulaire. La voûte lambrissée en bois a une poutre de gloire sculptée. Dans le choeur, fragments de l'ancienne verrière du 16e siècle et sablières historiées. La fontaine possède un calvaire représentant le Christ en croix entre la Vierge et Saint-Jean, les deux larrons à ses côtés. Il se dresse au faît du pignon monumental qui abrite la source et la statuette de la Sainte Trinité. Les façades ouest, est et nord présentent à leurs sommets de larges coquilles sculptées. Hormis l'accolade qui couronne l'ouverture de la niche et le sommet des pinacles qui l'accostent, toute l'ornementation de la façade est Renaissance. La fontaine est entourée d'un petit bassin carré.
English translation
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History
The chapel is a small building in granite with simple ashlar. Windows from the 16th century. Fleur-de-lis on the south façade. Western façade framed by corner buttresses with flamboyant pinnacles and crowned with a low bell turret formed of a small spire raised on cylindrical columns. Classical portal with triangular pediment. The boarded ceiling vault has a carved rood beam. In the choir, fragments of the former 16th-century stained glass and carved roof timbers. The fountain has a calvary representing Christ on the cross between the Virgin and Saint-Jean, the two thieves at his sides. It stands at the apex of the monumental gable which houses the spring and the statuette of the Holy Trinity. The west, east and north façades present large sculpted shells at their summits. Apart from the ogive which crowns the opening of the niche and the summit of the pinnacles which flank it, all the ornamentation of the façade is Renaissance. The fountain is surrounded by a small square basin.
Nearby in the register
- Fontaine Saint-Nicolasfontaine3 mi
- Chapelle de Locmariachapelle3 mi
- Chapelle Saint-Jeanchapelle3 mi
- Allée couverte de Saint-Nizonallée couverte3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.