Halles du Faouët, Medieval market hall in Le Faouët, France.

The Halles du Faouët is a medieval market hall featuring a rectangular layout approximately 53 meters long and 19 meters wide, with its slate roof supported by granite columns. Inside, the framework is made of oak and fir wood, creating a sturdy structure built to withstand centuries of use.

The hall is attested in a 1542 acknowledgement by the lord of Faouët, who stated it had belonged to him since time immemorial. Its construction is therefore earlier, credited in the archives to Yvon de Boutteville, lord of Faouët, Barrégan and Kerjehan and viscount of Quoetquennan, whose family raised the number of fairs in the town from nine to fourteen. The municipality bought the half-ruined building in 1815 from the d'Argouges de Ranes family and restored it, adding a clock chamber on the ridge later replaced by a bell tower. It was the first hall in Brittany classified as a monument historique, on 18 May 1914.

The hall's name comes from the Breton word for covered markets, and its fifteen-bay central vessel still frames the space where the town's fairs were held. Yvon de Boutteville's family raised the number of fairs from nine to fourteen, drawing traders on the strength of local agriculture and the pilgrimages to Le Faouët. Look for the granite columns set on a low stone wall, each carrying a timber truss.

The hall stands north of Place Plantée in the bourg of Le Faouët, with its far end opening onto a street with parked cars. The ground floor is an open, unenclosed passage between granite pillars and low stone walls, so it can be walked through at any time. The floor is uneven stone and the bays are open to the weather.

The octagonal bell tower on the ridge replaced an earlier clock chamber installed after the municipality bought the building in 1815. The tower is capped by an eight-sided bulb whose faces are lifted by coyaux, the same angled timber pieces that soften the roof slopes below.