Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix de Penlan
Helléan, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix de Penlan (cad. ZH 21) : inscription par arrêté du 29 mars 1935
- Protection dates
- 1935/03/29 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix monumentale
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- la Croix de Penlan
- Commune
- Helléan
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.96234, -2.47796
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091276
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 1786 map "Bretagne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Grand fût octogonal fixé à même le rocher, sans socle. Croix avec motif arrondi en fronton au-dessus des personnages : le Christ crucifié, la Vierge et Saint-Jean à ses pieds au recto ; une Pietà au verso.
English translation
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History
Large octagonal shaft fixed directly to the rock, without base. Cross with rounded motif in pediment above the figures: the crucified Christ, the Virgin and Saint John at his feet on the front; a Pietà on the reverse.
Nearby in the register
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- Croix monolithecroix monumentale1 mi
- Croix de Beloncroix monumentale1 mi
- Croix de la Ville-Côtecroix monumentale1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.