NOTRE-DAME DU KREISK VAULT

It is a classified monument that has its legend. On a feast day of the Virgin, a dressmaker worked: should not one eat in these days like in the working days - she was paralysed. Saint-Kireg, seeing her great remorse, cures her. In thanks, she offered her house which was made a vault dedicated to the Virgin. Seriously damaged by the English in 1375, it was rebuilt at once. Chapels are founded there (Saint-Louis in 1385, the Trinity in 1393, Saint-Goulven in 1395). Managed by a governor, it is "between the hands of the middle-class men" and is used as room of deliberations until approximately 1640... The thunderbolt shook the bell-tower and destroyed a part of the roof (P. Pennec).
The final repair will be undertaken only in 1668. In the East, you wil see a beautiful rose of the glass roof apse "buttresses surmounted of pinnacles, from where leave the struts" ( (CH Abgrall). In the South , advances a porch with balustrade that is nicely worked; the six blazing windows are of a large smoothness. In the West, the door is surmounted by a remarkable rosette which three openwork pinnacles cover. The Northern porch is one of the most complete of Brittany; very pure ogival arcade, richly carved curves of statuettes and foliages, a very beautiful geminated door that is composed "of two arcs in accolade and registered in a warhead with double archs" (Millon, Large Breton Madonna), on which multiply insects, animals and foliages. The plan is odd, definitely tilted on the right: some people see there the symbol of the leaning head of Christ on the Cross. In the access, one is disappointed that the high windows of the nave were stopped, removing a part of the luminosity. , les piles à faisceaux de colonnettes paraissent lourdes, but the unit is tributary of the bell-tower. However let us admire the rosettes and the canopies, the beautifulaltarpiece of the XVIIth century in the collateral south, the high altar which is a faithful copy of that of Folgoët, by Poileu; the Virgin is a reproduction of that which is at the top of the Northern tympanum. Beautiful work of the XVIIIth century, the pulpit is the old one of the basilica: alas! it was recently mutilated (project of restoration). The fame of the bell-tower exceeded the borders and its poets did not miss Vauban in Ozanam. Pointing to 78 m above the ground-level, it is so pure, so hurled, that its boldness does not cease surprising. Resting on four rectangular piles, the tower is of a rare elegance: "night gallery and day gallery, openwork lancets and lancets applied, girdle of four sheets and double cornice" (CH Abgrall). The architecture of the pinnacles, which pass from the square to the octagone, is of an astonishing audacity. Perforated by more than 80 varied openings, the arrow is of such a lightness that it is a true challenge to balance. Lace stone, Cascade of granite playing of full and the vacuum are posed there, like a point of exclamation Vis-a-vis to the winds and storms chopping the sky .
The Aerial arrow carries so high the name of Notre-Dame .A masterpiece of technique, a staircase of 169 steps carries out to the banister that is located 40 meters higher, from where the panorama is unequalled.