Église Saint-Malo de Dinan, Gothic church in Dinan, France.

Église Saint-Malo de Dinan is a Gothic church featuring a polygonal apse with three radiating chapels supported by eight pillars decorated with granite ionic columns. Access enters through a ceremonial porch constructed between 1613 and 1630.

The original structure outside the city walls was destroyed in 1488 during the War of Brittany and subsequently rebuilt from 1490 within the ramparts. This relocation into the fortified town center marked a shift in its religious and civic importance.

Jean II de Rohan, captain of Dinan from 1488 to 1516, funded the church as founder and kept a burial place in the central choir chapel; his arms were carved in stone and set in the stained glass. In the 17th century the axial chapel passed to seneschal Raoul Marot des Alleux, who built a white marble sarcophagus mausoleum there.

The south transept opens through the ceremonial porch on the Grand'Rue, built between 1613 and 1630 in Querignan granite. Inside, the nave was lowered by 3.60 m in 1727 by the architect Datour of Saint-Malo, and an inscription on the south nave wall dates from that work. Look for the carved inscription on the south-east transept pillar recording the laying of the first stone in May 1490.

The axial chapel holds a white marble sarcophagus built in the first half of the 17th century for seneschal Raoul Marot des Alleux, who received the burial right from Henri II de Rohan after the Rohan heirs became Protestants. The founder Jean II de Rohan had reserved that central chapel for his own tomb and had his arms carved in stone and set in the stained glass.