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The chapel of Saint-Fiacre, is located in Pont-du-Châtel (commune of Plouider), in Brittany. Built in the sixteenth century, it is a rather unique chapel as it features a Beaumanoir bell tower which houses a bell cast in 1647. Dedicated to Saint Fiacre, the patron saint of gardeners, it is best known for its "window to lepers", which allowed ‘kakous’ (excluded people) from the neighboring hamlet, (coopers, ropemakers and lepers) to attend the services without meeting the other faithful. Inside, there is a noteworthy font and, outside, the 15th century Calvary.

The chapel of Saint-Gwenaël (or Saint-Guenaël) is located in Moëlan-sur-Mer (Kermen), in Brittany. Built on the site of an old oratory, the building dates from the 18th century. It was restored in 1954. Currently, the chapel, which is nestled in a charming natural and green setting, is visible only from the outside.

The Chapel of Saint-Hubert is located in Lebiez, in the Hauts-de-France region. It was erected in 1666 by the Decroix family, following the miraculous healing, by the intercession of Saint-Hubert, of a child bitten by a rabid dog. The building has a chevet with three cut sides, supported by angular buttresses. A small bell tower replaced a campenard during the restoration of 1872.

The Chapel of Saint-Humi is located in Uchizy, in the Burgundy-Franche-Comté region. Built in the 12th century on the foundations of an ancient Gallic temple, the chapel belonged to a small monastic community. This place has, for millennia, been a site of pilgrimage and healing. The chapel is dedicated to Saint Humi, a hermit monk of the diocese of Saint-Claude in the Jura, who was a renowned healer of deaf people and stunted children.

The Chapel of Saint-Jacques and Saint-Christophe d'Auvillers is located in Neuilly-sous-Clermont. The chapel, has pre-Romanesque features, such as a single nave opening onto a flat chevet choir, that was later rebuilt in a primitive Gothic style. It is surmounted by a stone belfry with an octagonal slate spire. The chapel housed a white Carrara marble bas-relief: "The Madonna of Auvillers" by Augustine said Duccio (fifteenth century), that has now been replaced by a copy after the original was moved to the Louvre.

The Chapel St Jacques-Le-Major du-Plessis-Pericot was built in Grez-en-Bouère in the Pays de Loire in 1572. It has a rectangular floor plan with sandstone rubble walls and a slate roof. Locals made two farm entrances in the walls of the side façades. In the 18th century the chapel was repaired and then served as a pigsty. The chapel was threatened with ruin before new owners bought it.

The chapel of Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Joncet is located in Serdinya-Joncet, in Occitania. It was built between 1643 and 1646 by Joan-Pere Mas. With its stone and shale walls and slate roof, the building is typical of the architecture of the region. The western facade is surmounted by a bell tower with two arches, and inside, there is a seventeenth century wooden altarpiece.

The historical importance of the temple of "Coëfferie" is due to its past function of "Preceptory" of the Order of the Knights of the Temple and then "Commandery" of the Order of Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem (or Knights of Malta), making this ensemble the last commandery preserved in Brittany in its historical configuration. The Chapel, dedicated to Saint John the Baptist (patron of the Hospital) is its oldest part.

The Chapel Saint Julien de Dourlers, in the North, dates from the end of the 15th century. Originally, a hospice was attached to it, welcoming travelers, indigents and pilgrims wishing to sustain themselves or find a refuge for the night. Following a fire that devastated the hospice in 1931, only the Chapel of Saint Julien remains; it is now an essential witness of the history of Dourlers.

The foundation of Saint Loup chapel in Lanvellec, in the Côtes-d'Armor department, dates back to the mid-16th century. With its roof structure and roof collapsed, it is currently undergoing a major restorative campaign.