Broutay Manor

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Le château en bref

Broutay Manor stood in the commune of La Croix-Helléan, in Morbihan. It is first mentioned in 1340. In the mid-fourteenth century, the alliance of the Herbaut and Quelen families made the latter the lords of Broutay. The recumbent effigies of an Herbaut-Quelen couple, carved in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century, are preserved in the church of Sainte-Croix in the commune. The seigneurial residence has since disappeared: of the complex, only the remains of the private chapel of Saint-Antoine, built in the seventeenth century, survive. This chapel, with an elongated plan and a single nave, is built of rubblestone of schist and granite, without dressed-stone quoins, and roofed with a slate roof with long pitches, a covered gable and a hip. It bears the inscription ‘St ANTOINE’. The Regional Inventory, which studied it in 1990, describes it as being in a state of ruin. The plan, towers and elevations of the former manor are not known. The site is privately owned.