Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle Saint-Clément et croix monolithe sur le placître
Elven, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle Saint-Clément et croix monolithe sur le placître (cad. H 401) : inscription par arrêté du 24 octobre 1973
- Protection dates
- 1973/10/24 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle, 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Elven
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.70414, -2.59694
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091176
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 1695 map "Carte de l'Evesche de Nantes." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Chapelle rectangulaire en granit, épaulée de deux contreforts d'angle à double ressaut. Porte en arc brisé moulurée. Plusieurs baies au sud. Fenêtre de chevet en arc brisé garnie d'un remplage fleurdelisé. A l'intérieur, sur le mur du choeur, fresques grossières représentant Saint-Corneille et Saint-Abbon. Croix monolithe, sans doute plus ancienne, sur le placître.
English translation
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History
Rectangular chapel in granite, buttressed by two corner buttresses with double offset. Door in moulded pointed arch. Several openings to the south. Chevet window in pointed arch fitted with fleur-de-lis tracery. In the interior, on the wall of the choir, rough frescoes representing Saint-Corneille and Saint-Abbon. Monolithic cross, probably more ancient, on the cemetery.
Nearby in the register
- Ancienne forteresse ou ancien château de Largouëtforteresse2 mi
- Église Saint-Albanéglise2 mi
- Cimetièrecimetière2 mi
- Chapelle Sainte-Annechapelle2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.