Ste-Marie (Lanleff)

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Lanleff Temple, view from the north.

Sainte-Marie de Lanleff is a round religious building erected between 1060 and 1080 in the Romanesque style in the Breton community of Lanleff in the Côtes-d'Armor department . Since the original purpose of the building was not clear for a long time, the French name temple de Lanleff ( Breton Templ Lanleñv ) is also popular.

history

The design of the round church gave rise to discussions for centuries. Numerous legends are entwined around the building, in which it was initially believed to be a Gallo-Roman temple , a Celtic sanctuary or a Merovingian baptistery and finally a building by the Knights Templar . Today's dating to the second half of the 11th century is based on a document from 1148 discovered in the 19th century, which mentions a donation from the Church of Sainte-Marie-de-Lanlem to the Benedictine monastery of Saint-Magloire in Léhon .

architecture

Capital: Adam covers his nakedness.

The round church is based on the model of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem as it was built in the middle of the 11th century. A gallery with twelve fields and three apses surrounds the round church space, which was probably covered with a conical roof, similar to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Cambridge. On the twelve arcade pillars between the interior and the gallery, half-columns are placed on all four surfaces, which, like the half-columns of the outer wall, are decorated with figural and ornamental reliefs at the base and in the capital area.

Only the inner rotunda has been preserved from the original rotunda, the northern half of the outer wall including an apse is missing. Two extensions were made to the ruins in the 15th and 18th centuries, including the parish church, which was demolished in 1855 and the rotunda served as its anteroom.

literature

  • Olivier Pagès: Le temple de Lanleff. Dossier , TILV, Perros-Guirec 1998, ISBN 2-909159-32-9 .

Web links

Commons : Temple de Lanleff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Claude Berger: Iconography chrétienne au 11e siècle en Trégor-Goëllo. Diocese of Saint-Brieuc-Tréguier, archived from the original on November 27, 2016 ; accessed on April 6, 2019 (French).

Coordinates: 48 ° 41 ′ 41.9 "  N , 3 ° 2 ′ 45.4"  W.