Sainte-Anne Chapel

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This object is not linked to any sign on the site.
The chapel of Sainte-Anne is located in the hamlet of Liderrey. Its architecture and the circumstances of its foundation, in the context of the Catholic Reformation supported by families enriched by the Gruyère cheese trade, correspond to the model of the eleven original Charmysan chapels described for that of Saint-Jean Baptiste in the hamlet of Le Praz.
Its medieval attestation (1410) makes it probably the oldest, with a reconstruction indicated in the date engraved on the arch of the door: 1597-1611 (consecration in 1620).
The altarpiece, with its two Ionic columns, depicts the Holy Family superimposed with Saint Anne protecting her daughter and the Virgin Mary holding the Infant Jesus on her lap. The work is signed and dated: ‘Pantly pinxi(t). 16.75’ or “François Pantly (with a workshop in Fribourg) painted it in 1675”.
The Pettolaz du Liderrey family administered a fund, the interest in which enabled it to be maintained and a few masses celebrated each year. On Sainte-Anne's Day (26 July), a procession led by the parish priest left the church to sing a high mass.
Several elements have disappeared: a painted scene depicting Saint Anne and the Virgin Mary, above the door (still visible in old photographs); the original floor replaced by a cement paving; the original plasterwork, which probably included a painted decoration; the original polychrome of the faux-marble altarpiece; an old printed Lausanne missal that disappeared during the 1848 military occupation by radical troops.
In collaboration with the municipality of Val-de-Charmey