Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle Saint-Antoine
Guiscriff, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle Saint-Antoine (cad. P 68) : inscription par arrêté du 13 mai 1937
- Protection dates
- 1937/05/13 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 2e moitié 16e siècle, 17e siècle
- Dates
- 1686
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Guiscriff
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.01308, -3.59560
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091269
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 LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1750 map "Composite 3: Carte de France." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Chapelle en forme de croix latine avec petit clocheton à jour. Fenêtres à meneaux. A l'intérieur, dans le transept sud, une inscription sur sablières mentionne l'année 1686. Les marches d'accès aux autels sont sculptées. Le choeur conserve des boiseries abimées. Sous les pinacles d'angle, les gargouilles représentent les symboles des Evangélistes.
English translation
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History
Chapel in the form of a Latin cross with small open bell tower. Windows with mullions. Inside, in the south transept, an inscription on the sablières mentions the year 1686. The steps of access to the altars are sculpted. The choir retains damaged woodwork. Beneath the corner pinnacles, the gargoyles represent the symbols of the Evangelists.
Nearby in the register
- Dolmendolmen1 mi
- Chapelle de la Sainte-Trinitéchapelle2 mi
- Chapelle Saint-Urlo avec sa fontainechapelle2 mi
- Chapelle Saint-Éloichapelle2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.