Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Cimetière
Brech, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Croix du 17e siècle (cad. F 315) : inscription par arrêté du 20 mars 1934
- Protection dates
- 1934/03/20 : inscrit MH
- Type
- cimetière
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- le Bourg
- Commune
- Brech
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.72052, -2.99479
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091058
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 1773 map "7me. Carte Particuliere des Costes de Bretagne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La croix de cimetière présente un fort massif semi cylindrique. A sa partie supérieure, recto et verso portent un écusson sans armoiries. D'un côté, le Christ sur la croix avec la Vierge et Saint-Jean. De l'autre, une Pietà. Fronton rectiligne avec ajouration. L'épaisseur latérale est ornée de saints.
English translation
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History
The cemetery cross has a strong semi-cylindrical mass. At its upper part, the recto and verso bear an escutcheon without heraldry. On one side, Christ on the cross with the Virgin and Saint John. On the other, a Pietà. Rectilinear pediment with pierced decoration. The lateral thickness is ornamented with saints.
Nearby in the register
- Chapelle Saint-Jacqueschapelleunder 1 mi
- Chapelle de la Vraie-Croix de Langroëschapelle1 mi
- Chapelle Saint-Quirin, ancienne chapelle du manoir de Kerivallanchapelle1 mi
- Monument au comte de ChambordDénomination non renseignée2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.