Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix armoriée de Kério
Kervignac, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix armoriée de Kério (cad. ZC 70) : inscription par arrêté du 20 mars 1934
- Protection dates
- 1934/03/20 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix monumentale
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Kervignac
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.79135, -3.26390
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091329
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1773 map "7me. Carte Particuliere des Costes de Bretagne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Croix dont la pierre de support est au ras du dessus d'un talus dominant la route. Le Christ, au recto, la Pietà au verso ont, en-dessous, un écusson différent sur chaque face. Cet écusson faisant chapiteau du fût octogonal.
English translation
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History
Cross whose supporting stone is level with the top of a slope dominating the road. The Christ, on the recto, the Pietà on the verso have, below, a different escutcheon on each face. This escutcheon serving as capital of the octagonal shaft.
Nearby in the register
- Maisonmaison1 mi
- Maison bordant la route 168, près de la place de l'Églisemaison1 mi
- Maisonmaison1 mi
- Maisonmaison1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.