Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Temple (le Temple de Tréhen)

Pléboulle

The place name "le Temple" at Pléboulle recalls that after the disappearance of the Templars in 1312, the fief of Tréhen was granted to the Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem, who held lands here from the 14th century — a Hospitaller commander was still declaring property here in 1424. The present chapel, in the Gothic style, has a single nave separated from the choir by a diaphragm arch, a north aisle housing a private chapel, and a doorway adorned with the arms of the Du Guesclin family. The beaten-earth floor keeps fragmentary funerary slabs, and a 17th-century calvary stands in the adjoining cemetery. Although it was never a Templar commandery strictly speaking, its name and its history tie it directly to the heritage of the military orders of the Temple and the Hospital.

Getting there : free admission, communal property since at least 1826

Opening times and access details are given as a guide only: check before you set out.

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