page_title: Kreisker chapel
section_title: Pulpit
hierarchical_section_title: Kreisker chapel / Description / Pulpit
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Chaire à prêcher sise en la chapelle N.D. du Kresiker de Saint-Pol-de-Léon (29) et provenant de la cathédrale Saint-Paul-Aurélien.
context_page_description: The Notre-Dame du Kreisker chapel is a former Roman Catholic chapel in Saint-Pol-de-Léon in Brittany. With its 78 meters rising up in the sky, the church tower of the "Chapelle du Kreisker" is the highest in Brittany. The word Kreisker means the downtown.
  Built in the 14th and 15th centuries on the site of an ancient place of worship, it's one of the major works of Breton religious architecture and a testimony of the flourishing economy of the town in the 15th century with the highest and most audacious belfry in Brittany. An essential coastal landmark for navigation, it was for that reason restored and thus saved from destruction on Napoleon’s order in 1807. Striking circular view from the top.
context_section_description: The Kreisker pulpit ("chaire à prêcher") in fact came from the cathedral in 1975. It dates to the 18th century. The "abat-voix" is covered by a dome surmounted by an angel playing a trumpet.  Two caryatids decorate the pulpit and the pulpit stairway is decorated with bas-reliefs depicting the Virgin Mary with child, Saint Paul and Saint Paul Aurélien.
caption: The Kreisker chapel pulpit
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