📍 Crêches-sur-Saône
La Chapelle Saint-Roch
This chapel, built in 1680, was dedicated to Saint Roch, patron saint of livestock and poultry.
In a hamlet called "Dracé les Ollières" (already mentioned in 961 and whose suffix recalls the pottery industry). On the square of this hamlet stands the chapel erected in 1680 by Claude JANIN, Lord of Thoiriat. Inside, only one wooden altar is visible.
The chapel, in neo-gothic style, was dedicated to Saint Roch, patron saint of livestock and poultry, and whose feast day was a holiday for the animals: no one was supposed to "bind" the animals on that day.
It has a pyramidal bell tower.