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Chapelle Saint-Sauveur de Coadry

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Dimensions
Romanesque nave of the 11th century with four bays and three vessels, extended by a Gothic choir of the 14th–15th century on octagonal piers; 26 old statues and 19th-century Breton frescoes.
Period
Dependent on the Templars around the middle of the 12th century, then on the Hospitallers of Saint John until the Revolution
What stands there
The building preserves 26 polychrome statues in stone and wood, as well as Breton frescoes painted in the 19th century by Georges Alexandre Fischer.

Around the middle of the 12th century, the chapel of Saint-Sauveur at Coadry was probably dependent on the Templars, before passing, after the dissolution of the order, under the protection of the Hospitallers of Saint John until the French Revolution. The building went up in two quite distinct phases: an 11th-century Romanesque nave, with four bays and three timber-roofed vessels, whose round-headed arcades rest on broad rectangular piers; then a Gothic choir of the 14th – early 15th century, with octagonal piers and pointed windows filled with tracery. The chapel houses rich Baroque furnishings, twenty-six statues in stone and polychrome wood, and 19th-century Breton frescoes by Georges Alexandre Fischer.

Further reading

Getting there : Chapel open, freely accessible; maintained by a preservation association.

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Chapelle Saint-Sauveur de Coadry
JanaZbunka · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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