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Chapelle Saint-Jean de Campénéac

Campénéac

Dimensions
Rectangular chapel with a semicircular apse, built of local schist, with a small timber belfry under a pyramidal roof
Period
13th century (foundation attributed to the knights of the Order of the Temple); passed to the Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem after 1312; major alterations in the 17th century
What stands there
site perhaps occupied from a 6th-century hermitage onwards; priory and chapel granted to Prigent de Trécesson by royal letters patent in 1568

Tucked away in the forest of Paimpont-Brocéliande, the chapel of Saint-Jean is said to have been founded by the Knights Templar in the 13th century, before passing to the Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem after the order's dissolution in 1312. The site may occupy the location of a far older hermitage, dating back perhaps to the 6th century, ruins of which survive nearby. In 1568, the adjoining priory and the chapel were granted by royal letters patent to Prigent de Trécesson. A fountain dedicated to Saint John, once the destination of a procession on 24 June, completes this ensemble, registered as a monument historique but today in private hands.

Further reading

Getting there : Private property, chapel not open to visitors; hamlet and fountain visible from the path

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Chapelle Saint-Jean de Campénéac
Fab5669 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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