Chapelle de la Trinité

English translation

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History

The chapel is a place of pilgrimage. According to tradition, it would date back to the 9th century and would have been transformed and enlarged in the 12th century. A kind of barn was once built against the north flank of the chapel to shelter pilgrims coming to spend the night of the vigil there. The entrance door has retained its 12th-century hinges. The chapel consists of a nave vaulted in barrel vault, terminated by a hemicycle apse and flanked, to the south, by an aisle vaulted with a half-barrel vault supporting that of the nave. A porch tower with two arcades surmounts the west gable of the nave. Externally, two types of construction are visible. The north wall of the nave is built of unquaried granite rubble stone, laid in horizontal courses. The south façade and the apse are in dressed and coursed granite ashlars. These latter parts moreover comprise decorations (moulding ornamented with heads and rosettes on the south façade; pilasters joined by arcatures around the chevet). This would indicate that the chapel was built in two phases, the most recent dating back to the 12th century. There would originally have been, perhaps in the 11th century, a chapel composed of a single nave built in granite rubble stone and covered with roof structure. Later, the nave was vaulted with a round-arch barrel vault and an aisle was built against the south wall in which arcades were opened. Finally, the apse of the chevet vaulted in cul de four was erected. In the 18th century, addition of a presbytery against the west wall.