Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix en granit du 15e siècle
Clayes, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix en granit du 15e siècle (cad. A 457) : classement par arrêté du 10 mars 1907
- Protection dates
- 1907/03/10 : classé MH
- Type
- croix de cimetière
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- le Bourg
- Commune
- Clayes
- Département
- Ille-et-Vilaine
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.17612, -1.85278
- Mérimée reference
- PA00090534
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Sur trois marches, un socle carré se termine en octogone. Sur la croix, la branche ouest présente la Vierge à l'Enfant accompagnée de deux personnages ; celle de l'est représente le Christ en croix avec deux femmes à ses pieds.
English translation
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History
On three steps, a square base terminates in an octagon. On the cross, the west branch presents the Virgin and Child accompanied by two figures; that on the east represents Christ on the cross with two women at his feet.
Nearby in the register
- Château de Clayes-Palyschâteauunder 1 mi
- Église Notre-Dameéglise2 mi
- Croix en granit du 13e sièclecroix de cimetière2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.