Yann Larhantec
In England cathedral closes for example, include many residential and administrative buildings, as well as the church, but Breton Parish closes contained only buildings and structures designed for worship: the church itself, a calvary, and sometimes an ossuary or charnel house with chapel and a cemetery.
The calvaries of such church enclosures are significant works of popular art and more often than not they display Christ and the two thieves whilst at the base many feature relief panels, free-standing sculptural groups or both.
It was sculpted in Kersanton granite and on the four faces of the pedestal Larhantec has carved depictions of the passion.
Bears the inscription "MISSION 1865"[20][21] The Église Notre-Dame de Confort at Confort-Meilars dates back to 1528 and 1544 and the Calvary stands near the west porch.
The Calvary was decorated with statues of the apostles but these were broken during the French revolution and then lost their heads in 1849.
HOC SIGNUM CRUCIS ERIT IN COELO CUM DOMINUS AD JUDICANDUM VENERIT.
EREXIT PATERFAMILIAS AD FILIOS IN FIDE STABILIENDOS"[24] In 1903, Lanhartec sculpted a relief depicting Soubigou for the family grave in Plounéventer's cemetery.
[25] Plougonven's parish church in the Trégor region was built in the early 16th century in the flamboyant gothic style.
The church together with the Calvary and a burial chapel and ossuary are grouped together in the "enclos paroissial de Plougonven".
The chapel has sober lines in contrast to the flamboyance of the church and the ossuary contains the tomb of the Abbé Le Teurnier decorated with the Abbe's statue sculpted by Larhantec.
This church in Plougar has a Calvary in its graveyard sculpted by Larhantec with statues of the Virgin Mary and St John on either side of the Cross bearing the crucified Jesus.
The statue of St John is in fact a Roland Doré work which dates back to the early 17th Century.
The inscription near the cross reads "JUBILE 1875 MISSION"[28] This war memorial by René Quillivic is reckoned to be Finistère's first memorial to the dead of the 1914-1918 war and was placed in front of the existing Larhantec calvary and a semi-circular wall decorated with a "Chemin de croix" by Donnart.
His calvary of 1884 in north Guiclan is 7 metres high and is inscribed "40 JOURS D’INDULGENCES EN DISANT 5 PATER ET 5 AVE".
[36] Larhantec completed a calvary for this church near Morlaix' viaduct bridge in the parish of Notre Dame du Mur.
3 Pater 3 Ave 40 jours d’indulgence"[42] This 7-metre-high (23 ft) Calvary dates to 1872 and is located in the old cemetery attached to Kerlouan's Sainte-Anne's chapel.
