Temple of LANNOUEE in Yvignac
The preceptory of the Temple of La Nouée in Yvignac, today Lannouée, is mentioned in 1182, in the charter of Conan IV, Duke of Brittany, under the term Lannoué. According to the times, their name changes to La Noueix, La Nouaye, Lannooeix. The yearning. This word “La Nouée” has Celtic origin, meaning “wet, swampy place”. Indeed, this house was located on an ancient Celtic path that later became the Roman path, ending in the last century in a royal.The chapel, visible today, belonged to Lanhoe Temple. It is located in the diocese of Saint Malo, on the parish of Yvignac, and extended these possessions to the surroundings of Dinan. Three members depended on this preceptory: the Temples of Créhac (Pledran), La Caillebotière (Plurien) and Romillé (in Ille et Vilaine).
Placed under the vocabulary of Saint-Jean Baptiste, the chapel of Lannouée would be in the same style and era as the church of Yvignac, built according to the local tradition by the Templars. It was in this chapel of Lannouée that, in 1297, was received Templar Pierre de Launay. He was attended that day by four brothers of the Temple: Hugues Poulet, d’Auvergne, Guillaume Battan and Jean de Fougères.
The commander of Lannouée lifted the tithe on all the lands he had in his fief, but also in Yvignac, Trebedan, Corseul, Saint-Carne, Plénée-Jugon, the fief of the Temple, Bourseul, the village of Hospital, Tramain, the village of Croix and the old manor of the Temple, Plouer, Taden, Plorec, mansion called the Temple, Quever and finally in Dinan It is necessary to mention two locations where the Knights of the Temple had rights: Vildé-Guingalan, and Vildé-Goëllo.In the short of May 1313, Josselin de Taulay and Geoffroy Bretonneau, royal sergeants, accompanied by Geoffroy Pellion, notary in Saint-Brieuc, went to the preceptorary of Lannouée to take possession of it and hand it over to the Hospitals represented by Jehan de Chalons, commander of La Feuillée, and Guillaume Jamart, Commander of Quesoy. It was later renamed “The Hospital” of Plumaugat.
In 1395, brother Nicolas Seguin became commander of Lannouée and La Guerche, which resulted in merging the two commanderies. In 1427, brother Nicolas Poitevin asserts his command of La Guerche and La Nouaye. In 1612, the chapel needed some repairs, the farmer general of the commandery undertook “to rebuild and rebuild the chapel and make the required repairs”. (Departmental archives of Vienna. 3H1/169 room 54).
During the 17th and 18th centuries, the commandery would be abandoned to the care of general farmers. Chapel worship was always celebrated like burials and weddings. The sale of the commandery, as a national good, took place on the 17 rainy year VII of the republic (February 3, 1799). She was sold 3,000 francs to Michel Frère, farmer of the La Salle trade.Prior to this sale, the bell had been taken down and hidden in the village. Subsequently, in 1803, the new owner of the headquarters claimed this bell, but the bell had been handed over to the mayor of Yvignac. The claim was declared inadmissible and since that time, the bell rings today in the Saint-Firmin chapel in Trélée. (Armor Coast Departmental Archives, Series V 3750).
As indicated in the minutes of the visit of the commanderies of the Guerche and Lannouée, made in 1708 by Ch. De Cherbonneau and preserved in the Archives of Ille et Vilaine, it was still visible on that date: “an altar decorated with a large crucifix surrounded by the statues of Saint John and of Saint Martin, or a magnificent Roman arcade accompanied by two altars that separates the choir from the nose.
The oldest parts are built using the technique of “stuffed” bricklaying, i.e. filling the space between the granite marbles. Door and window frames fitted with fine grain granite. In the Xe and XI centuries, the chapel is presented as a rectangle ended by a semi-circular apsis pierced through three windows, only one of which remains today. In the South Wall, the walled bay covered with a triangular lense was to be a door giving access to the chapel. The ensemble was supported by flat foothills.In the 15th century, the south wall of the apsis is pierced through a window, today it’s bricked, but still visible from the inside. To open this new window the foothill had to be demolished. The gate on the South wall is walled in. The North wall is being reconstructed with a new door that is currently being penetrated into the chapel.
It was in the enlarged nose that in 1935 eight skeletons arranged perpendicularly to the axis of the building were exhumed. In the absence of specific information about this discovery, it is impossible to determine the circumstances of these burials and their dates.
At one time the chapel was turned into a cider press. Today it has been restored thanks to the action of the “Friends of the Chapel of Lannouée” association. A visit is possible but an appointment is preferred.
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