Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix de calvaire de Saint-Houarneau
Bourbriac, Côtes-d'Armor, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix de calvaire de Saint-Houarneau, en granit (cad. L13 196 ; XC 39) : inscription par arrêté du 14 septembre 1964
- Protection dates
- 1964/09/14 : inscrit MH
- Type
- calvaire monumental
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Bourbriac
- Département
- Côtes-d'Armor
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.44976, -3.22832
- Mérimée reference
- PA00089031
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1786 map "Bretagne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Deux bases superposées, séparées par une moulure, soutiennent le socle de la croix. Le fût à pans coupés porte une croix ornée, sur une face, du Christ avec la Vierge et un apôtre, et d'une descente de croix sur l'autre.
English translation
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History
Two superposed bases, separated by a moulding, support the plinth of the cross. The chamfered shaft carries a cross ornamented, on one face, with Christ with the Virgin and an apostle, and a descent from the cross on the other.
Nearby in the register
- Chapelle de Saint-Houarneauchapelleunder 1 mi
- Dolmen de Kérivole (ou Kerivoa)dolmenunder 1 mi
- Calvaire de la Croix-Rougecalvaire monumental2 mi
- Chapelle Notre-Dame de Darnouëtchapelle2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.