In some cases it atones somewhat by its richness and elaborateness of
sculpture, as in the case of St. Thegonnec. The west front of this
church is Gothic, of the fourteenth century. One of the turrets has a
small, elegant spire, and at the S.W. angle there is a very effective
domed tower bearing the date 1605.
You enter the churchyard by a triumphal arch, in Renaissance dated 1587.
It is large and massive, with a great amount of detail substantially
introduced, its summit crowned by a number of crosses. On the frieze St.
Thegonnec is represented conducting a waggon drawn by an ox: a facsimile
of the waggon that is said to have assisted in carrying the stone to
build the church. St. Thegonnec is the patron saint of all animals, and
to him the peasants appeal for success and good-luck in such matters.
Adjoining the triumphal arch is a Flamboyant ossuary or mortuary chapel,
dated 1581, richly gabled, in perfect preservation, and of two storeys.
The first consists of semicircular arches supported by small pillars
with Corinthian capitals. A short staircase within leads to a crypt
converted into a small chapel, in which is an entombment formed of
life-size figures carved in wood, gilded and painted, bearing date 1702.
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