Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Monument expiatoire
Lorient, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Monument expiatoire (cad. CH 70) : inscription par arrêté du 13 avril 1944
- Protection dates
- 1944/04/13 : inscrit MH
- Type
- monument
- Main period of construction
- 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété d'une association
- Address
- avenue Perrière ; rue Jules-Legrand ; anciennement Kergoise ; avenue de
- Commune
- Lorient
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.73572, -3.36613
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091411
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 LibrariesIGN France — Géoportail
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1708 map "Le Bretagne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Monument triangulaire qui aurait été élevé au 18e siècle sur le lieu où des vases sacrés dérobés ont été retrouvés. Il est de forme pyramidale légèrement incurvée, à arêtes abattues, et surmonté d'une croix.
English translation
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History
Triangular monument which is said to have been erected in the 18th century at the place where stolen sacred vessels were found. It is of a slightly curved pyramidal form, with bevelled edges, and crowned with a cross.
Nearby in the register
- Préfecture maritimepréfectureunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaison1 mi
- Chapelle Saint-Christophechapelle2 mi
- Croix datée de 1558 située à Kergouldeccroix monumentale2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.