Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle Saint-Guen et son ossuaire
Saint-Tugdual, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle Saint-Guen et son ossuaire (cad. B 318) : inscription par arrêté du 5 juillet 1927
- Protection dates
- 1927/07/05 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 2e quart 16e siècle
- Dates
- 1540
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- Saint-Guen
- Commune
- Saint-Tugdual
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.08821, -3.37370
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091723
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IGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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
Chapelle en croix latine à chevet plat. Un ossuaire a été adossé à la façade sud. Il est formé, en façade, de quatre travées en anse de panier, avec balustres faisant pilastre avec chapiteaux à volutes. L'effort décoratif a surtout porté sur cette façade ainsi que sur le clocher. La grande baie éclairant la nef est couronnée par un grand gâble décoré de sculptures, deux pinacles d'amortissement combinés avec de grands animaux, un quadrupède et un monstre marin. D'autres animaux très ajourés se détachent sur le gâble du transept. Les fenêtres ont conservé leurs meneaux. Clocher de type ajouré.
English translation
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History
Chapel in Latin cross form with flat chevet. An ossuary has been set against the south façade. It is formed, in façade, of four bays in basket-handle arch, with balusters making pilaster with capitals with volutes. The decorative effort was chiefly concentrated on this façade as well as on the bell tower. The large opening lighting the nave is crowned by a large gable decorated with sculptures, two pinnacles of termination combined with large animals, a quadruped and a sea monster. Other very pierced animals stand out on the gable of the transept. The windows have retained their mullions. Bell tower of open-work type.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Jean-Baptisteéglise2 mi
- Cimetièrecimetière2 mi
- Chapelle de Lochristchapelle2 mi
- Manoir du 16e sièclemanoir3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.