This chapel is located in Finistère, in the town of Mellac, formerly ancient bishopric of Cornwall.
The Madeleine Chapel was built on the site of ‘a leper colony which was managed by the city of Quimperlé.
In the vicinity of the chapel, named Roz an Ankou, was the gallows of justice of the Abbot of Sainte Croix.
This chapel built at the end of the 15th century was magnificently restored at the instigation of a committee of restoration created in 1978.