Église de Notre-Dame des Carmes

This church is the former chapel of the Carmelite convent.
On 4 May 1383, Baron Hervé IV Du Pont and his wife Péronnelle de Rochefort called upon the monks of the Order of Mount Carmel to instruct and catechise the people on their estate. They built a convent, cloister and church, which were completed in 1411. The size of the church clearly shows that it served the civil community as well as the monks, which is also reflected in the enfeus and baptismal registers. In 1792, the convent and cloister were sold as national property, and the church became a parish church. In 1879, the town bought the convent to turn it into a school. In 1880, the cloister was demolished. Its stones were bought back in 1901 and reassembled for the Quimper major seminary, now the Lycée Technique Chaptal. The old cloister leaned against the south wall. At the southern corner of the eastern gable, the bell tower was built in 1603, with superimposed domes in a style often used in Carmelite monasteries. Inside the building, the columns, of the Pont-Croix or Languidou type, are plain and without capitals. The windows bear the marks of both the 14th century and the flamboyant period. Numerous low-arched enfeus indicate the seigniorial influence. The current stained glass windows date from 1852.
The rose window is impressive! It measures 7.70 m in diameter, making it one of the largest in Finistère.