Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle Saint-Mathieu
Guidel, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- L'inscription datée de 1497 surmontant la porte Sud du transept (cad. YH 77) : inscription par arrêté du 20 mars 1934
- Protection dates
- 1934/03/20 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Dates
- 1497
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- Saint-Mathieu
- Commune
- Guidel
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.75670, -3.48300
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091258
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IGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1750 map "Composite 7: Carte de France." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Chapelle en forme de croix latine. La nef a été modifiée ou aménagée. Transept et choeur anciens. Sur la face occidentale du transpet sud, petite porte ogivale avec, au-dessus, une bande à inscription se terminant par des enroulements ornés de petits personnages.
English translation
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History
Chapel in the form of a Latin cross. The nave has been modified or fitted out. Transept and choir ancient. On the western face of the south transept, small ogival door with, above, a band with inscription ending with scrolls decorated with small figures.
Nearby in the register
- Restes du Fort du Lochfort1 mi
- Croix de Kervegancroix monumentale2 mi
- Croix de chemin en granitcroix de chemin2 mi
- Croix de chemincroix de chemin2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.