Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Trois croix
Locoal-Mendon, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Trois croix, sur le chemin des Trois-Croix, au village de Moustoir : inscription par arrêté du 29 mars 1935
- Protection dates
- 1935/03/29 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix monumentale
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Address
- chemin des Trois-Croix
- Lieu-dit
- Moustoir
- Commune
- Locoal-Mendon
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.70477, -3.10465
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091402
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 1773 map "7me. Carte Particuliere des Costes de Bretagne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Un lech et deux croix monolithes se trouvent sur le chemin de Mendon au village du Moustoir. La première est une croix pattée. La seconde une croix plus récente, trèflée avec figuration du Christ. La dernière porte une sculpture naïve.
English translation
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History
A standing stone and two monolithic crosses are found on the road to Mendon at the village of le Moustoir. The first is a cross moline. The second a more recent cross, trefoiled with a representation of Christ. The latter bears a naïve sculpture.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Pierreégliseunder 1 mi
- Dolmen à galerie à support gravé de Mané-er-Loh, dit Mané-Brasdolmen1 mi
- Croix de Pen-er-Pont, sur l'isthme de Locoalcroix monumentale1 mi
- Lech de Pen-er-Pontcromlech1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.