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Origin and history

The former chapel of Puy Gauthrel is a religious monument located in the commune of Saint-Savinien in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. The available sources do not specify its date of construction or its detailed history, but its name and location suggest a spiritual or community role in the past. In the countryside of New Aquitaine, chapels such as that of Puy Gauthrel often served as secondary places of worship, linked to hamlets or rural estates.

They reflected local religious life, marked by collective practices and a social organization centred around parishes and seigneuries.