Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle Sainte-Brigitte
Grand-Champ, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle Sainte-Brigitte, à Loperhet (cad. O 174) : classement par décret du 28 décembre 1936
- Protection dates
- 1936/12/28 : classé MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Dates
- 1560, 1569
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- Loperhet
- Commune
- Grand-Champ
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.79626, -2.87101
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091213
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1773 map "7me. Carte Particuliere des Costes de Bretagne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Nef se terminant par un chevet à trois pans maintenu par des contreforts d'angles avec gargouilles, surmontés de pinacles moulurés. A l'intérieur, au chevet, deux niches de saints en granit à pilastres sculptés, avec coquilles formant fronton.
English translation
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History
Nave terminating in a chevet with three panels maintained by corner buttresses with gargoyles, topped with moulded pinnacles. Inside, at the chevet, two niches of saints in granite with sculpted pilasters, with shells forming the pediment.
Nearby in the register
- Fontaine de Loperhetfontaineunder 1 mi
- Menhir de Keraramenhir2 mi
- Menhir dit Men-Bras-de-Kermar-Kermenhir2 mi
- Cimetièrecimetière3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.