Ruines de la chapelle de Languidou

Plovan

At the place called Languidou, the flat east end of a ruined chapel still bears a large radiating rose window; around it, three southern arcades of the chancel, sections of nave columns and portions of the west gable make it possible to reconstruct the plan. The building, about 22 metres long by 13 wide, had a nave of four bays with side aisles, unvaulted, separated by a diaphragm arch from a chancel of three bays. It belongs to the school of Pont-Croix, whose columns and capitals it echoes. Two capital inscriptions name the master builder, Auffray Le Guiriec (Auvredus Gurreu), as well as a canon Guillaume and Yves de Revesco. The dating remains disputed: the Mérimée record says the original building is 12th century, Wikipedia places it in the mid-13th, and René Couffon, who compares it to Pont-Croix, favours around 1275. The rose window, of a later date, is dated to the end of the 14th or the very beginning of the 15th century. The chapel was dedicated to Saint Guy or Saint Kido, a Breton saint known from the Gothic breviary of Quimper; his statue, a Saint Guy depicted as an abbot, is now in the parish church of Plovan. Sold off during the Revolution, the chapel was partly demolished in 1794 to provide stone and roofing for a guardhouse. A devotional fountain remains downhill, now abandoned. The writer Per-Jakez Hélias attached to the place a tale, «La rivière de Kido,» in which the great pardon of Languidou dies away with the receding sea. The ruins have been listed as a historic monument since 1908.

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Getting there : At the place called Languidou, on the road to Tréogat, in the countryside of Plovan. The ruins are freely accessible (to be checked). The devotional fountain, about a hundred metres downhill, is overgrown with vegetation (access to be checked).

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

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