Visit of the chapel Saint-Jean d'Epileur with exhibition "Pardons de Bretagne"

Name: Visit of the chapel Saint-Jean d'Epileur with exhibition "Pardons de Bretagne"
Start: 2022-09-17T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Chapelle Saint-Jean d'Epileur

Visit of the chapel Saint-Jean d'Epileur (14th century) classified as a historical monument for its remarkable frescoes and structure, with photo exhibition on the theme "Pardons of Brittany".

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Comité de sauvegarde de la chapelle Saint-Jean d'Epileur - HENRI Marcel

The volunteers of the Committee of Saint John of Epileur propose a visit to the 14th century chapel classified as a historical monument, with exceptional frescoes for Ille-et-Vilaine, which tell the life of Saint John the Baptist and the passion of Christ, and the remarkable frame painted with rafters, checkerboards and ermines. The exhibition "Pardons of Brittany" (loan from the Association bretonne des Amis de Saint Jacques de Compostelle) adds to the discovery of the building: 30 photo panels that reveal, the atmospheres so particular of these ancestral traditions that are the Pardons Bretons, through men, women, children, objects, costumes ....

About the location

Chapelle Saint-Jean d'Epileur

35600, Sainte-Marie

Ille-et-Vilaine
Bretagne

Chapel of the fourteenth century classified historical monument for its frescoes (fifteenth century) and remarkable frame.
This small chapel is located 4.2 km from the village and 300 m north of the road. Its construction, although located in the 16th century by Guillotin de Corson and Baneat, seems to go back to a much earlier period, probably in the 13th or early 14th century. This hypothesis is the result of surveys carried out in April 1986 on the interior walls of the chapel. These surveys have indeed made it possible to detect on almost all the walls of the building (nave, choir, transept) important traces of murals made very likely at the beginning of the 15th century. The architecture of the building is rather poor; it affects the shape of a Latin cross whose main dimensions are 18.90 m for the nave and 14.68 m for the total length of the transepts. The chapel has three altars, two of which are ancient granite tables supported by coarse consoles. The altarpiece of the high alta