Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle Saint-Jean
Le Faouët, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle Saint-Jean et son placître (cad. ZE 10) : inscription par arrêté du 22 juillet 1944
- Protection dates
- 1944/07/22 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- Saint-Jean
- Commune
- Le Faouët
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.06556, -3.51165
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091191
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IGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Petit édifice en forme de croix latine, autrefois siège d'un établissement des Hospitaliers de Saint-Jean datant du 12e siècle. Fenêtre du chevet droit avec virgules et trilobes. Au transept sud, fenêtre ogivale dans le pignon, meneau, lobes gothiques, avec arcature plein cintre surmontant le meneau. La chapelle est entourée d'un placître.
English translation
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History
Small building in the form of a Latin cross, formerly seat of an establishment of the Hospitallers of Saint John dating from the 12th century. Window of the right chevet with virgules and trilobes. On the south transept, pointed window in the gable, mullion, Gothic lobes, with round arch arcading surmounting the mullion. The chapel is surrounded by a precinct.
Nearby in the register
- Chapelle Saint-Sébastienchapelle1 mi
- Chapelle Sainte-Barbe et maison du gardechapelle2 mi
- Chapelle Neuve et sa fontainechapelle2 mi
- Vieilles halleshalle2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.