Saint-Tugdual Cathedral, Treguier

Interesting church. We were pretty far west in Treguier, almost to Finisterre, where, in my opinion, things start getting more Breton, which is to say, Celtic, than French. Anyway, we spent some time in the Cathedral here and were greatly rewarded.

13th century Gothic, mostly, although the oldest part, the so-called
Hastings Tower, is 11th century, which is indeed way old

Nave view

Elevation; no gallery, blind triforium, 3-lancet
clerestory windows with surmounting whatcha-
ma-call-it windows, 4-part ribbed vaulting; 
pretty standard 13th century French architecture; 
curious to find it so far west here

One of the quirky things here, however, is the piers in the nave:
look at them, right

And left

We've seen alternating piers/columns in some of the transition
Gothics, in the Ile de France, but never anything like this: no
two pairs are alike, at all

Crossing

Choir; nice carving, misericordia; enlarge the dude in the very
center and you will see a fighting Uruk-hai from The Two Towers

Apse ceiling, painted

Nice person

Killer Rabbit of Caenbannag (look it up)

The part of this cathedral that impresses,
however, is the 11th century Hastings Tower,
one wall of which is in view here; Romanesque
arches, etc., and the stone work above them
looks almost like rubble, at least when compared
with the finely cut stone of the 13th century
church; one doesn't see much 11th century
construction in Europe, at least not of any
magnitude (OK, OK, this is Brittany and human 
construction work here is measured in  millennia, 
not in centuries; we'll get to that shortly)

Anyhow, the capitals in the Hastings Tower are in part what
you'd expect of a Norman-era church

But then there is much I would describe as Celtic

Thus

And thus; and more

Saint-Tugdual's three towers: Hastings, the 13th century Sanctus
tower, and the 1785 bell-tower/spire

Interesting old church