Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Cimetière
Grand-Champ, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- La croix du 16e siècle (cad. L 2) : inscription par arrêté du 23 mai 1927
- Protection dates
- 1927/05/23 : inscrit MH
- Type
- cimetière
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- le Bourg
- Commune
- Grand-Champ
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.76001, -2.84860
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091214
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
Croix d'environ quatre mètres de hauteur, avec fût écotté sur les quatre angles dans sa partie supérieure. A la base, sous un fronton en mitres, évêque avec manipule, personnage avec livre et palme, Sainte-Catherine avec sa roue, un quatrième personnage. Au-dessus du fût monolithe, croix percée au centre en forme de losange, à trois bras fleuronnés égaux.
English translation
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History
Cross of approximately four metres in height, with shaft cut back on the four angles in its upper part. At the base, under a fronton with mitre, bishop with manipule, figure with book and palm, Saint Catherine with her wheel, a fourth figure. Above the monolithic shaft, cross pierced at the centre in the shape of a lozenge, with three equal fleuronned arms.
Nearby in the register
- Manoir de Kerléguenmanoirunder 1 mi
- Chapelle Notre-Dame de Burgochapelle2 mi
- Fontaine de Burgofontaine2 mi
- Maison de prêtre de Chanticoqmaison2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.