Chapelle de Coat Quéau

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Koat-Keo Chapel is a Catholic religious building located on the territory of the municipality of Scrignac, at Coat-Quéau, in the Finistère department, 24 km southeast of Morlaix. It was built in 1937 on the initiative of Abbé Perrot, founder of Bleun-Brug, by architect James Bouillé (1894-1945), creator of the Breton Workshop of Christian Art, at the site of an old chapel — the existence of which is mentioned on the trove (parochial subdivision) of Koat-Keo from the fourteenth century — fallen into ruins in the course of the nineteenth century. It is owned by the diocesan association of Quimper.

It is considered a significant example of the search for modern Breton architectural creation (neobreton style) and a high place of Breton memory. James Bouillé, who participated in the creation of the Breton Autonomist Party, tried to express throughout his work his convictions as an activist, singing the revival of Breton artistic expression. This has been reflected in the exact case of this chapel, in a modern Gothic style, especially for the bell tower and bays, and the very modern design of a porch largely...