The town of Sulniac is located in my beautiful department 56 of Morbihan, in my lovely region of Bretagne. The bordering towns are Treffléan, Elven ,La Vraie Croix ,Theix, Questembert, Lauzac and Berric , From Vannes you take the road N166 towards Rennes, take the Kerboulard exit, towards Treffléan / Questembert / Redon (D775), then at the Penrho roundabout follow the D183. I am updating an older post and combining it with new pictures taken today to expand on the town of Sulniac, as before had monuments in its village of Le Gorvello. Hope you enjoy the new post as I.
The Saint-Jean-Baptiste Church is a Catholic church located at a village call Le Gorvello,part of the town of Sulniac. The current church replaces the primitive chapel at the beginning of the 16C built by the hospital monks. The church has been remodeled several times, Le Gorvello is a hamlet straddling the towns of Theix-Noyalo and Sulniac. The hamlet is located at the intersection of the departmental roads D7 and D183, equal distance from Theix, Sulniac, Berric, La Trinité-Surzur and Lauzach. It is about 15 km from Vannes. In the 12C, Le Gorvello housed a Chaplaincy, belonging to the Templars, which cared for the poor, the sick and the lepers. At the dissolution of the order of the Templars, in 1312, the parish was passed under the control of the Bishop of Vannes. The Church of St. John the Baptist is built from 1523 to replace the chapel of the Templars.
The Church of St. John the Baptist it’s a T-shaped Church, the nave barely detached from the two arms of the transept. At the bedside, large glass canopy with moldings. To the south transept, mulled window ,and in the north transept, wooded window . The west entrance gable is adorned with a bay in a basket handle with pinnacles, braces and flop work. The gable is crowned by a small campanile with double compartment, frontings, all in granite. On the north façade, the nave bay is adjacent, adorned and protected by a porch made up of a circular granite arch. The buttresses of the bedside and the north transept present a superposition of cylindrical and prismatic parts.
The present Church of St John the Baptist , the nave is covered with a frame, which has abundant inscriptions. In 1547, a chapel was added. In 1560, a porch and a second chapel are added. The Church is open, on its western gable, by a door in a basket-loop, with multiple moldings, under a brace bearing a high jewel. The buttresses that surround it are decorated with flaming pinnacles. The Church houses the statues of St. Mark and St. Isidore, the Patron Saint of the Laborers.
The Saint-Pierre Church (12-20C) is in city center/downtown Sulniac. The church was almost completely rebuilt in the 19C and then in 1948-49 following a fire. Only the transept crossing remains of the Romanesque church. Its semicircular arcades were recut in tiers-point after the 1948 fire. They rest on complex piers with engaged columns and sculpted Romanesque capitals.
Other things to see in Sulniac jurisdiction are:
The Sulniac Cemetery Cross is a banner cross erected in the town of Sulniac, The place de l’église to the apse of the church, The Saint-Jean-Baptiste fountain is located at the hamlet of Le Gorvello The steeple placed on a pedestal houses a statuette of St Vincent Ferrier, apostle of the country of Vannes in the 15C. The castle of Ferrières is located overhanging the Ferrières stream, about 500 meters north of the hamlet of Kerhouarn, 2.4 km from the town center of La Vraie-Croix, 3.6 km from the town center of Sulniac and 5.3 km from the town center of Questembert. The castle is built in the Louis XIII style and in local granite. Of the original castle, only a few carved granite openings remain, an armored pennon and carved chimneys. Rampants with chevronière and acroterion are also present on the western facade.
Also, as have a recent post and others, here is the home of the Distillerie du Gorvello, A small family farm specializing in the cultivation of cider apple trees , and ciders of course.
The town of Sulniac on its heritage : http://www.sulniac.fr/accueil/decouvrir_sulniac/histoire%20_%20patrimoine
The Gulf of Morbihan local tourist office on Sulniac : https://www.golfedumorbihan.bzh/explorer-vannes/decouvrir-vannes/golfe-morbihan/landes-de-lanvaux/sulniac/
There you go folks , some more interesting trips off the beaten path in my beautiful Morbihan; and is not over yet!! Plenty more to see and do here. For now ,enjoy the Sulniac town and hamlets !
And remember, happy travels, good health, and many cheers to all !!!
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