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The church of Kéraudy, located in Ploumilliau in the Côtes-d'Armor, is a granite relief chapel built between the late 15th and early 16th centuries. Typical of the small Breton churches, it presents a plan in tau with nave with four spans, low side, transept and flat bedside. Its south porch, equipped with a screw staircase and a vault on a dogive cross, preserves an old carpentry. Inside, a carved wooden stand and glass fragments from the 15th to 16th centuries remain, including a Virgin with Child under an architectural dais in the axial bay.

Ranked as a Historic Monument on January 16, 1935, with its calvary and enclosure, the church initially depended on the commandory of Pont-Melvez, then on that of La Feuillée in the sixteenth century. In 1653 it was exchanged by Commander René de Saint-Offange for 16 bushels of wheat to the seigneur of Lanascol, thus passing under the jurisdiction of the Quemper family of Lanascol. This local nobility, notably Yves de Kerbuzic and Marie de Goesbriand (married in 1530), marked the building of his weapons, visible on the arch key of the porch.

The ancient stained glass windows, including a Calvary dated from the years 1490-1500 and a Virgin with Child accompanied by Saint-Jean-Baptiste and Saint-Yves, testify donors such as Guillaume de Quoleue (or Quelneuc), mentioned on an inscription. The church, early trevial of Ploumilliau under the name of Saint John the Baptist, was restored in the 19th century (north and nave elevation). Its granite calvary, dated from the first half of the sixteenth century, and an 18th century cross (attributed to Hernot workshops) complete the enclosure.

The wall of fence in granite bellows, open scaffolds, delimits an elevated placister. The three-bayed bell tower crowns the west gable, while the south and north facades reveal changes: the first preserves 14th century elements (O-rings), the second was rebuilt in the 19th century. A tombstone of the former hospital cemetery of Saint-Jean de Brézéhan and the burial of the Viscount Louis-Marie-Emmanuel de Quemper de Lanascol (1890, workshop Hernot) recall his hospital and seigneurial history.

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