Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Cimetière
Guern, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- La croix (cad. I 156) : inscription par arrêté du 13 mai 1937
- Protection dates
- 1937/05/13 : inscrit MH
- Type
- cimetière
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- le Bourg
- Commune
- Guern
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.03022, -3.08841
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091250
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1789 map "158 Vannes." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Fût polygonal avec moulurations faisant chapiteau ou bague sur lequel repose la croix proprement dite. Le Christ d'un côté et la Vierge de l'autre sont surmontés d'un fronton rectiligne à crochets avec angelots comme amortissement au-dessus et redents ajourés en-dessous. La Vierge et Saint-Jean sont accolés au tronc, contre le Christ.
English translation
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History
Polygonal shaft with mouldings forming a capital or ring on which rests the cross proper. The Christ on one side and the Virgin on the other are surmounted by a rectilinear pediment with crockets with little angels as finish above and openwork redents below. The Virgin and Saint John are set against the trunk, against the Christ.
Nearby in the register
- Église Notre-Dame-de-Quelven et abordséglise1 mi
- Puits de Kerhohpuits2 mi
- Manoir de Menorvalmanoir2 mi
- Chapelle Saint-Fiacrechapelle2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.