Chapel of St Evy

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The chapel of Saint-Evy is located in the enclave of the commune of Saint-Jean-Trolimon, a commune situated in the region of Bigouden between Pont-l'Abbé, Plomeur and Plonéour-Lanvern. Placed at the bottom of a slope that dives towards a marsh and its reed, fed by the river that flows into the pond of Saint-Vio below, the chapel of Saint-Evy is the example of these sanctuaries of devotion so numerous in Lower Britain. Opulent or modest, they glaze the territory of thousands of steeples.

A focal point of a dispersed habitat, the chapels often served as secondary parish churches, with his parish priest, parish priest, and cemetery. Saint-Evy was endowed with it until the 18th century, place of worship and assembly of a very particular territory, dependent on Saint-Jean-Trolimon but separated by the commune of Ploneour. This enclave, inherited from the Middle Ages (formerly Gorre-Beuzec) and which did not disappear with the Revolution, was formed as a quasi-independent community, because of its distance from the town, the inhabitants first recognizing themselves by their belonging to the same truce or freshness before being left by the parish.

Kerbascol, located two hundred meters from the site,...