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Chapelle Saint-Jean de Langast

Langast

Dimensions
Chapel of rectangular plan with an exposed timber roof, one of the best preserved in the department; 17th-century altarpiece and fragments of early stained glass.
Period
Foundation attributed to the Templars or to the Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem (12th–13th century); present building rebuilt in the 16th century
What stands there
The neighbouring place name "la Maladry" recalls the existence of a former leper hospital run by these hospitaller-military orders.

Local tradition attributes the foundation of this chapel dedicated to Saint John the Baptist to the Templars or to the Hospitallers of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, who succeeded the former in Brittany after 1312. The name of the patron saint, John the Baptist, traditional protector of these military orders, and the neighbouring place name "la Maladry" — the memory of a leper hospital — lend weight to this hypothesis. The present building, rebuilt in the 16th century, has a rectangular plan beneath a very fine exposed timber roof, one of the few surviving in the Côtes-d'Armor. Sold as national property at the Revolution, it was returned to the parish in 1826 and made a chapel of ease the same year. It preserves a 17th-century altarpiece and fragments of early stained glass.

Further reading

Getting there : Chapel of ease still in use, visible from outside; opened occasionally for the pardons (Breton pilgrimage festivals).

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

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Ambient sound

Chapelle Saint-Jean de Langast
Pascal Radigue · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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In the same department

All places — Côtes-d'Armor (81).