Chapelle de Languidou
The Chapelle de Languidou is the ruin of a chapel in Plovan in Brittany . The ruin has been classified as a monument historique since 1908 .
history
The Chapel of Languidou is dedicated to St. Vitus (French Guy , Breton Quidou, Guidou or Guideau) and was built between 1160 and 1260 by craftsmen from nearby Pont-Croix. It is therefore assigned to the Pont-Croix Building School .
The chapel is around 22 meters by 13 meters and has three naves . The nave has four bays and the choir two bays . The choir just closed was given the impressive rose window in the style of Flamboyant Gothic in the 16th century . Obviously, the rose was worked out by the same master who completed the second south portal of the collegiate church in Pont-Croix .
As a result of the French Revolution, the chapel was sold in 1795 and partially destroyed. Numerous stones were used to build a guardroom in Plovan. The structural value of the chapel was only recognized late, secured the ruins and placed them under monument protection. The "Association of Friends of Languidou" has made the preservation and care of this ruin its task.
Items from the chapel are now in the church of St-Gorgon in Plovan.
literature
- Louise-Marie Tillet: Itineraries through Brittany. Calvaires and Romanesque churches . Echter, Würzburg 1989, ISBN 3-429-01186-8 , p. 186.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chapelle de Languidou in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 47 ° 54'49 " N , 4 ° 21'9.8" W.