Merlevenez - Notre-Dame-de-Joie

The Knights Templar founded a convent here with chapel dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene. Parts of this chapel may have been "incorporated" into Notre-Dame-de-Joie.

Most of the nave, the transept and the apse date back to the 12th century. The many capitals seen here are very delicately carved, what is pretty unusual for Brittany. Some art historians see influences from Poitou-Charente.

A centaur is hunting a dodo. One arrow is already in the dodo´s beak, but the creature is not a dodo, but a chimera, as it has - not to be seen from this pov - the tail of a snake.