Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Kerfons

The chapel of Notre-Dame de Kerfons or rather ‘Kerfaouès’ (‘the place planted with beech trees’) was founded on the lands of the ancient fiefdom of Coatfrec, the ruins of whose castle of the same name stand further north on the west bank of the River Léguer. It was rebuilt in the first quarter of the 15th century after its destruction during the War of Succession of the Duchy of Brittany and remodelled by Guillaume de Penhoêt after the lordship of Coëtfrec became a barony on 13 June...