Chapel of Notre-Dame du Kreisker
Rising 78 metres towards the sky, the bell tower of the Notre Dame du Kreisker chapel is the highest in Brittany. Its foundation dates back to the 6th century. A young linen maid who had worked on a non-working feast day in honour of the Virgin, despite the admonitions of Saint Kirec (or Guévroc), was suddenly paralysed from all her limbs. After his repentance, the saint was healed and she gave him her house to make a chapel. It was named "Kreis- ker" because it was situated in the middle of a village, a suburb of the city. The first wooden chapel did not resist the ravages of the Normans in the 9th century. Tradition reports that the English, after having burnt the town in 1375, rebuilt the Kreisker, certain architectural elements such as the "perpendicular style" to the tower's stump being clearly influenced from across the Channel.
About this building
Church built at the end of the 14th century by John IV, Duke of Brittany. The portal presents mauve and acanthus leaves intertwined under the vaults of a third point arch. The bell tower is a square tower whose mass is hidden by long pointed windows. It is surmounted by a cornice and a balustrade from which an arrow rises, worked in daylight and flanked by bell towers. "According to Vauban on his way to Roscoff, its seventy-eight meter high granite bell tower, one of the highest Gothic monuments and the highest in Brittany, is the prototype of many Breton bell towers. The tower rests, in the church, on four pillars carved in bundles of small columns.
