Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix Forhan
Guégon, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix Forhan (cad. ZC 111) : inscription par arrêté du 13 mai 1937
- Protection dates
- 1937/05/13 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix monumentale
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- la Chataigneraie
- Commune
- Guégon
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.94987, -2.62568
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091231
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 LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
Grand fût octogonal le long duquel se déroule en spirale une banderolle portant deux lignes de caractères gothiques. Une bague avec torsade fait chapiteau sur lequel repose la croix avec le Christ. Au pied de la croix, deux ailerons se dégagent, supportant la Vierge et Saint-Jean. Au verso est représentée une Pietà. Un couteau avec manche et oeilleton est ménagé en relief sur le haut d'une des faces du fût.
English translation
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History
Large octagonal shaft along which unfolds in spiral a scroll bearing two lines of Gothic characters. A ring with twisted moulding forms the capital on which rests the cross with the Christ. At the foot of the cross, two small wings stand out, supporting the Virgin and Saint John. On the reverse is depicted a Pietà. A knife with handle and eye-hole is set in relief on the top of one of the faces of the shaft.
Nearby in the register
- Croix du 16e sièclecroix monumentale1 mi
- Maisonmaison1 mi
- Calvairecalvaire monumental2 mi
- Cimetièrecimetière3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.