Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Calvaire de Menez-ar-Plour
Plounévez-Lochrist, Finistère, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Calvaire (cad. A 1105) : inscription par arrêté du 17 mai 1933
- Protection dates
- 1933/05/17 : inscrit MH
- Type
- calvaire monumental
- Main period of construction
- Protohistoire, Moyen Age
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- Lanzeon
- Commune
- Plounévez-Lochrist
- Département
- Finistère
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.63863, -4.22379
- Mérimée reference
- PA00090262
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 LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesBibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1750 map "Composite 3: Carte de France." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le monument se compose d'une base de pierre, ou lech, prismatique et à facettes, remontant sans doute à la protohistoire. Il aurait été christianisé sans doute vers le 9e siècle par l'ajout d'une croix au sommet.
English translation
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History
The monument consists of a base of stone, or lech, prismatic and faceted, presumably dating from protohistory. It was probably Christianized around the 9th century by the addition of a cross at the top.
Nearby in the register
- Chapelle de Lochristchapelleunder 1 mi
- Allée couverteallée couverte1 mi
- Halles, puis syndicat d'initiativemarché couvert3 mi
- Domaine du château de Mailléchâteau3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.