Collégiale Notre-Dame-de-Roscudon

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Notre-Dame-de-Roscudon Church is a Catholic church located in Pont-Croix, Finistère department, France. Built from the 13th century by successive additions, up to the second quarter of the 16th century thanks to the patronage of the lords of Pont-Croix, then their allies and descendants of the house of Rosmadec, it is an example of the patronage of the local Breton aristocracy, and bears witness to the permanence of this noble lineage over the three centuries of its construction. It is the most important monument of what was known as the Pont-Croix School, a collection of monuments located west of Quimper with a series of special stylistic features that have long made them considered Romanesque buildings. In reality, the church of Pont-Croix is a Gothic building which, according to some authors, shows a strong influence on the part of English constructions, especially the southwest quarter of England; According to other art historians, she reinterprets rather Breton Romanesque constructions to make it a manifestation of reaction against the influence exerted by the forms of the gothic...