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The convent of the Augustines of Tréguier is located on the site of a medieval God-hotel attested from the thirteenth century, frequented by Saint Yves (1253-1303). The oldest remains, such as the 16th century parlor and the chapel of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine (second half of the 15th century), bear witness to this hospital origin. The passerby room, on the ground floor, and the sick room upstairs, communicated directly with the chapel, whose flat bedside was illuminated by a Gothic bay before adding a monumental altarpiece.

In 1654 the bishop of Tréguier, Monsignor Grangier, and the lords Pierre de Loz and Françoise de Kergroadez called on the Augustine Hospitallers of Quimper to restore the declining establishment. The nuns first restored the chapel (1655), converting the sick room into a convent choir. Between 1662 and 1663, they built the large house (cloister, refectory, dormitories) and built a new hospital (1669-1695), demolished in the 19th century to give way to a modern building completed in 1856.

The wing of the boarding school, added in 1823 perpendicular to the house of the seventeenth century, illustrates the extension of the activities of the Augustines to the education of girls. In 1896, the Saint-Yves house, intended for priests, extended the hospital. The convent, disused in 1996, is now owned by the diocesan association. Its most remarkable elements (chapel, choir of the nuns, 17th century wing) have been listed as Historic Monuments since 1999, while other parts have been listed since 1997.

The architecture of the convent reflects its functional evolution: the street building, made of cut stone and stone, preserves windows in Gothic broken arches, while the large house body of the 17th century presents a cloister with arches in full hangar and mansarded windows. A hagioscope allows patients in the infirmary to follow the office from their floor. The chapel, without transept, houses a altarpiece occupying the height of the bedside, masking the old Gothic bay.

The site is organized around a central park open to the west on the garden, with four medieval buildings grouped around an inner courtyard in the southeast. The circulation between the spaces (hospitals, convents, educational) has been adapted over the centuries, as evidenced by the gallery of 1935 linking the cloister to the 19th century hospital, shifted from the old chapel. Together, an area of one hectare, illustrates the superimposition of religious, medical and social uses over more than six centuries.

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