Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Deux croix monolithes à socle commun
Ploërmel, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Deux croix monolithes à socle commun (cad. YS 1) : inscription par arrêté du 30 mai 1927
- Protection dates
- 1927/05/30 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix monumentale
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle, 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- Bezon ; Roc Brien
- Commune
- Ploërmel
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.90780, -2.42274
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091501
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
Deux croix en granit monolithe, de hauteur inégale, sur un même socle, dites croix Guyot, datant du 16e ou 17e siècle. Fûts et bras hexagonaux. Elles sont marquées, au-dessous des bras, l'une de cinq points, l'autre de quatre.
English translation
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History
Two crosses in monolithic granite, of unequal height, on the same base, called Guyot crosses, dating from the 16th or 17th century. Shafts and arms hexagonal. They are marked, below the arms, one with five points, the other with four.
Nearby in the register
- Calvaire du 16e sièclecalvaire monumentalunder 1 mi
- Croix monolithe dite Croix de Bezoncroix monumentaleunder 1 mi
- Chapelle Saint-Antoinechapelle1 mi
- Croix du Hambotcroix monumentale1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.