Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Sept croix
Plélan-le-Petit, Côtes-d'Armor, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Les sept croix (cad. WO 86) : inscription par arrêté du 21 décembre 1925
- Protection dates
- 1925/12/21 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix monumentale
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 18e siècle
- Dates
- 1793, 1795
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- R.N. 176
- Commune
- Plélan-le-Petit
- Département
- Côtes-d'Armor
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.42727, -2.23071
- Mérimée reference
- PA00089404
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — Géoportail
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1750 map "Composite 4: Carte de France." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La tradition considère ces monuments comme représentant les sept saints de Bretagne. Selon les registres paroissiaux, se trouvait sur ce terrain une cahutte dont les sept habitants furent assassinés une nuit de Noël. Les croix ainsi que les bases sont en granit, placées en hémicycle sur un muret en maçonnerie.
English translation
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History
Tradition considers these monuments as representing the seven saints of Brittany. According to parish registers, there was formerly on this ground a cottage whose seven inhabitants were murdered one Christmas night. The crosses as well as the bases are in granite, placed in a hemicycle on a rubble-stone wall.
Nearby in the register
- Ossuaire, adossé au mur du cimetièreossuaireunder 1 mi
- Manoir des Fossésmanoirunder 1 mi
- Château de Beauboischâteau2 mi
- Abbaye de Beaulieuabbaye2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.