Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix
Carnac, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix située sur le tumulus du Mont-Saint-Michel : inscription par arrêté du 12 mai 1925
- Protection dates
- 1925/05/12 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix monumentale
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Dates
- 1669
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- sur le tumulus du Mont-Saint-Michel
- Commune
- Carnac
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.58796, -3.07355
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091083
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLeiden 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
La chapelle Saint-Cornély, datée de 1669, bâtie sur le tumulus du Mont Saint-Michel, est une simple salle rectangulaire voûtée en bois. Sur la face occidentale, un clocheton couronne le pignon. Il existe à côté une croix calvaire grossièrement taillée, placée sur un fût octogonal.
English translation
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History
The chapel of Saint-Cornély, dated 1669, built on the tumulus of Mont Saint-Michel, is a simple rectangular room with a wooden vault. On the western face, a small bell tower crowns the gable. There is beside it a roughly hewn calvary cross, placed on an octagonal shaft.
Nearby in the register
- Tumulus-dolmen du Mont-Saint-Micheltumulusunder 1 mi
- Dolmen de Cruz-Menquendolmenunder 1 mi
- Menhir de Kerluhirmenhirunder 1 mi
- Dolmen de la Croix Audrandolmenunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.