Ossuary (plouarzel)

Ossuary in Plouarzel

The ossuary in Plouarzel , a French commune in the Finistère department in Brittany , was built in 1696. In 1928 the ossuary in the enclosed parish was added to the list of architectural monuments in France as Monument historique .

The rectangular building made of local granite with a length of 14 meters and a width of six meters has an unadorned arched portal on the south side and four arched windows to the right of the entrance. A holy water font is integrated into the facade in the middle of the window . The gable roof is covered with rectangular stone slabs and is crowned by a roof turret.

The left part of the building with two rectangular windows was used as a cemetery chapel.

literature

• Le Patrimoine des Communes du Finistère. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-039-6 , p. 1448.

Web links

Commons : Ossuary (Plouarzel)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chapelle-ossuaire de Plouarzel in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Coordinates: 48 ° 26 '2.5 "  N , 4 ° 43' 51.3"  W.