Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix de Kerofret
Guénin, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix de Kerofret (cad. YD 53) : inscription par arrêté du 23 juin 1937
- Protection dates
- 1937/06/23 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix monumentale
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- Kérauffret
- Commune
- Guénin
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.90377, -2.98845
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091243
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 1708 map "Le Bretagne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Croix monolithe au fût légèrement plus large en bas et dont les faces ménagent en relief, sur le recto, des ronds et losanges superposés. Sur le fût, un rectangle en creux sur les bras. Au verso, une croix pattée inscrite dans un disque et, sur la face ouest, des losanges et une croix pattée allongée.
English translation
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History
Monolithic cross with a shaft slightly wider at the base and whose faces provide in relief, on the recto, superposed circles and lozenges. On the shaft, a rectangle in relief on the arms. On the verso, a cross pattée inscribed in a disk and, on the west face, lozenges and an elongated cross pattée.
Nearby in the register
- Cimetière entourant l'églisecimetièreunder 1 mi
- Croix de Kermarechcroix de chemin2 mi
- Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Manéguen et fontainechapelle2 mi
- Fontaine de la Clartéfontaine2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.