Ancienne église Saint-Aurélien, au Vieux Bourg

English translation

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History

This chapel-ossuary is the sole element preserved from the parish enclosure of the church of Saint-Aurélien, ruined and sold for its building materials in 1908. It is representative of buildings constructed in the late 16th century and early 17th century which bear the imprint of the Renaissance style. By its plan and identical arrangements (door and openings with round arch whose archivoles rest on pilasters), it is compared to that of the church of Saint-Thomas of Canterbury at Landerneau, dated by inscription to 1635. This funerary building escaped the significant movement of destruction which caused many to disappear in the late last century, but it experienced instead the common fate of those which survived: from the second half of the 19th century onwards, they became at best chapel or sacristy, tobacco retail, primary school or dwelling house. The chapel-ossuary of the former church of Saint-Aurélien has been used as a dwelling since the early 20th century.