Today's motorbike ride took me to the old Breton town of Locminé where the parish church of St. Sauveur - St. Saviour - is rather unusual. In 1972 the Mayor and Town Council decided that the parish church had become so shabby and dilapidated that it should be torn down and rebuilt. The front facade consisting of the front of the chapel of St. Colomban (on the left with the clock tower) and the front of the church of St. Sauveur (on the right with the bell tower) were so much of a local landmark though that it was decided to retain them but build a modern church behind. In this view you can just see the sharp contrast between the old buildings and the new church which was opened in 1975.
