Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Calvaire de la Croix-Rouge
Pont-Melvez, Côtes-d'Armor, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Calvaire de la Croix-Rouge (cad. C 712) : inscription par arrêté du 11 février 1964
- Protection dates
- 1964/02/11 : inscrit MH
- Type
- calvaire monumental
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- C.D. 24 ; C.R. 10 ; V.C. 69 de Ty Nevez Mouric
- Commune
- Pont-Melvez
- Département
- Côtes-d'Armor
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.46134, -3.26523
- Mérimée reference
- PA00089538
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity 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
Important calvaire formant chapelle-niche par la disposition des granits sur une plinthe et un dé cubique. Une moulure soutient deux pierres verticales recevant une pierre corniche rudimentaire. En guise de fronton, une pierre semi-circulaire se pose sur deux petites. Entre les deux granits semi-circulaires, passe le montant de la croix qui se pose sur le muret cloison entre les deux niches chapelles. Sur la croix, représentation d'une Pietà.
English translation
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History
Important calvary forming chapel-niche by the arrangement of granites on a plinth and a cubic die. A moulding supports two vertical stones receiving a rudimentary cornice stone. By way of a pediment, a semi-circular stone rests on two small ones. Between the two semi-circular granites, passes the upright of the cross which rests on the partition wall between the two chapel niches. On the cross, representation of a Pietà.
Nearby in the register
- Croix de calvaire de Saint-Houarneaucalvaire monumental2 mi
- Chapelle de Saint-Houarneauchapelle2 mi
- Dolmen de Kérivole (ou Kerivoa)dolmen2 mi
- Chapelle Saint-Fiacrechapelle3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.