Enclos de la Chapelle Notre-Dame de Châteaulin

About

La Chapelle Notre-Dame is a chapel overlooking the Aulne in Châteaulin in the centre Finistère. It is located within a parish enclosure. Built on the hillside on the north-west face of a hill that was from the 10th century a fortified point (in the 11th century, the cartular of the Benedictine abbey of Landevennec designates this place as "Montagne de Nin near the banks of the river named Hamn") the chapel Notre-Dame dominates the course of the Canalized Aulne by 35 m.

It dates back to its oldest parts in the early 13th century. It was at the time the parish church of a small village on a nearby hill, where the so-called "Old-Bourg" remains. The structure of the chapel will evolve over the next 5 centuries according to the different styles of the moment.

But despite all these changes, there is a certain unity that makes this church a small masterpiece of Breton architecture. The church, the triumphal arch, the cross and the ossuary (Box AO 176) are classified as historical monuments by decree of 21 December 1914