Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église ou chapelle Notre-Dame
Kernascléden, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle Notre-Dame (cad. AD 90) : classement par avis de classement du 3 avril 1857
- Protection dates
- 1857/04/03 : classé MH
- Type
- chapelle, église
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- le Bourg
- Commune
- Kernascléden
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.00694, -3.32007
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091325
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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
Eglise en forme de croix latine, de style gothique, avec des peintures ornant les voûtes du choeur et d'une chapelle latérale. Les peintures du choeur représentent des sujets tirés de l'Ancien et du Nouveau Testament. Celles de la chapelle montrent quatre anges aux ailes déployées tenant des philactères et chantant des litanies de la Vierge. A l'extérieur, portail orné des sculptures de saints abrités par des dais ouvragés.
English translation
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History
Church in the form of a Latin cross, of Gothic style, with paintings adorning the vaults of the choir and a side chapel. The paintings of the choir represent subjects taken from the Old and New Testament. Those of the chapel show four angels with wings spread holding scrolls and singing litanies of the Virgin. On the outside, portal ornamented with sculptures of saints sheltered by elaborate canopies.
Nearby in the register
- Cimetièrecimetièreunder 1 mi
- Chapelle Sainte-Annechapelle1 mi
- Cimetièrecimetière2 mi
- Chapelle Saint-Yveschapelle3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.