The chapel of La Roche-Fulk is located on the village of Soucelles, which merged with the neighboring town Villevêque in January 2019 to form the new town of Rives-du-Loir-en-Anjou, 20 km north-east of Angers.
Dedicated to the Holy Cross, precisely located in the small hamlet of La Roche-Fulk, the chapel was built in the twelfth century by Fulk Lord Cleers who placed a part of the True Cross (or Holy Cross), on which the Christ was crucified, reported at the end of the second crusade.
The revamped building several times however holds its reputation for exceptional collection of polychrome statues dating from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century it houses, statues formerly kept in churches in Britain.
This is a collection consisting of the Bodinier family, long time owner also of the chapel, one of whose members, William, was one of the major painters of the nineteenth Angevin.
The statues, in number 25, and the building itself and paintings by Guillaume Bodinier, were donated to the town in 1980.
The statues are over the years the subject of restoration. These are carried out under the leadership of the Conservative antiquity and art objects in Maine-et-Loire before returning in turn place in the chapel, protected as historical monuments such as the works of art they -Same.
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