Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix du bourg
Bignan, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix du bourg encastrée dans le mur d'enceinte de l'église (cad. AC 120) : 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
- Lieu-dit
- le Bourg
- Commune
- Bignan
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.87957, -2.77264
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091043
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 1708 map "Le Bretagne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Autel avec deux rangs de marches surmonté d'un retable figurant la mise au tombeau. Moulures ornementées. L'autel est surmonté d'une croix en granit de forme pattée.
English translation
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History
Altar with two rows of steps surmounted by a retable depicting the entombment. Ornamented mouldings. The altar is surmounted by a granite cross of pattée form.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Pierre Saint-Paulégliseunder 1 mi
- Croix de Treulieccroix monumentaleunder 1 mi
- Allée couverte de Kergonfalzallée couverteunder 1 mi
- Dolmen sous tumulus de Kergonfalzdolmen1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.