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The chapel Saint-Avé-d'en-Bas, also called Notre-Dame-du-Loc, was built between 1475 and 1494 in Saint-Avé, Morbihan. It is built in the shape of a Latin cross, with a slate bellet and a facade adorned with a portail and an oculus. Its architecture combines cutting stone with gables and bells for the rest, reflecting the flamboyant Gothic style of the time.

The chapel was founded by Olivier de Peillac and André de Coëtlagat, then rectors of Saint-Avé. Its interior is home to carved wooden sandstones and entrances, classified as early as 1922. The ensemble, including the enclosure, the fountain and the calvary, was protected in 1932. The date of 1494, engraved on the sandstones, suggests an origin related to a vow or a commemorative event.

The western gable, particularly designed, frames a protruding ogival door, while the bedside features a flamboyant window with stained glass remains. The sculptures of the sandstones combine Gothic motifs, characters and foliage. The chapel, a communal property, remains a place of pilgrimage and a testimony of Breton religious art of the late Middle Ages.

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