Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix du 16e siècle
Plaudren, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix du 16e siècle (cad. ZK 21) : inscription par arrêté du 25 septembre 1929
- Protection dates
- 1929/09/25 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix monumentale
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- Saint-Bily
- Commune
- Plaudren
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.77669, -2.63838
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091473
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 1695 map "Carte de l'Evesche de Nantes." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Croix située en face de la chapelle de Saint-Bily. Il s'agit d'une croix bannière en granit sculpté. La partie supérieure forme à peu près le cube. Sur une face, le Christ en croix ; sur l'autre, une Pietà. Aux quatre angles, sur des culs de lampe, la Vierge, Saint-Jean, Nicodème et Jean d'Arimathie. Fût écoté avec torsade en haut. A sa base, quatre figures d'anges sous un fronton en bâton brisé.
English translation
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History
Cross situated opposite the chapel of Saint-Bily. This is a banner cross in sculpted granite. The upper part forms approximately a cube. On one face, Christ on the cross; on the other, a Pietà. At the four corners, on corbels, the Virgin, Saint John, Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea. Faceted shaft with twisted detail at the top. At its base, four figures of angels under a battered pediment.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.