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  • Let’s share our October escapades !

    We visited Notre-Dame de Croaz-Batz in Roscoff.

    A former haven of corsairs then of smugglers, from where
    the Johnnies* set out to sell their pink onions, Roscoff is a small
    seaside town which has preserved its architectural heritage from the 16th and 17th centuries
    Built on the sea, the sacred perimeter contains the church, two ossuary chapels, one Gothic, the other Henry II style, and the funerary
    monument of Dorothea Silburne, who welcomed, in London,
    Monseigneur de la Marche, last bishop de Léon, emigrated in 1790.

    The Renaissance bell tower, almost unique in Brittany, dates from 1575-1576.

    *The Johnnies are onion growers and merchants from Roscoff and Santec who, from the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century, left, from July to December, to the United Kingdom, on the other side of the Channel, to sell their onions.

    The construction of Notre-Dame de Croaz-Batz was undertaken around 1520, on land taken from the sea, a stone’s throw from the “cross of the pier of the Ile de Batz”, at the initiative of the shipowners of the cited, despite the reluctance of the Bishop of Saint-Pol. HJLepetit photos (click on the image to enlarge it)

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