Chapelle Notre-Dame de la Houssaye

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The chapel Notre-Dame de la Houssaye is located at the place called the Houssaye, in Pontivy, Morbihan.

History: The chapel is a typically polyphase construction: the Viscount of Rohan, Alain IX began to build, in 1435, the choir and transept of the chapel which was continued by his son, John II. While the latter had his Josselin castle restored in the 1480s, he frequently lived in Pontivy where he had his last military building built between 1479 and 1485. It is probably at this moment that he prays at La Houssaye and orders the polychrome stone altarpiece to a picard workshop for this chapel. The construction of the nave continued by Anne de Rohan at the beginning of the 16th century, that of the bell tower-porch took place in the 18th century (clocher-porche realized from 1730 to 1779, building an arrow at the beginning of the 19th century). The site uses proximal rocks, stones of different granites of the Pontivy Batholite (fine, coarse) and brioverian schist moellons. The Houssaye was with Noyal and La Brolade one of the three major fairs in Rohan country where more than three thousand horses were traded in the sixteenth century; Not one could...