Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix de Saint-Fiacre
Auray, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix de Saint-Fiacre (cad. AL non cadastré) : inscription par arrêté du 29 mars 1935
- Protection dates
- 1935/03/29 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix monumentale
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- Quai-Neuf
- Commune
- Auray
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.66573, -2.97088
- Mérimée reference
- PA00090992
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailLeiden University Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1773 map "7me. Carte Particuliere des Costes de Bretagne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Grand fût octogonal sur dé en granit avec emmarchement. Petits sujets aux scènes sculptées sur tailloir où repose la croix proprement dite. Celle-ci porte d'un côté le Christ, de l'autre une Pietà.
English translation
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History
Large octagonal shaft on a granite base with steps. Small subjects with sculpted scenes on the abacus on which rests the cross proper. The latter bears on one side Christ, on the other a Pietà.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Goustanégliseunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.