Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix de Pen-er-Pont, sur l'isthme de Locoal
Locoal-Mendon, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix de Pen-er-Pont sur l'isthme de Locoal : 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 privée
- Lieu-dit
- Locoal
- Commune
- Locoal-Mendon
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.70492, -3.12890
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091403
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
Croix en granit, trèflée, l'angle entre le fût et les bras étant arrondi. Au centre, représentation d'une marguerite à six pétales. Le lech voisin porte des motifs gravés en creux, dont deux croix pattées.
English translation
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History
Cross in granite, trefoil, the angle between the shaft and the arms being rounded. At the centre, representation of a daisy with six petals. The neighbouring stone slab bears motifs engraved in relief, including two patée crosses.
Nearby in the register
- Lech de Pen-er-Pontcromlechunder 1 mi
- Lech Men-er-Menahcromlechunder 1 mi
- Dolmen à galerie à support gravé de Mané-er-Loh, dit Mané-Brasdolmen1 mi
- Trois croixcroix monumentale1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.