Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle de Locmaria
Plouay, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle de Locmaria (cad. I 423) : inscription par arrêté du 3 juin 1975
- Protection dates
- 1975/06/03 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- Locmaria
- Commune
- Plouay
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.88925, -3.39616
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091512
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
Modeste chapelle morbihanaise à nef unique dont la charpente présente des sablières ornées de têtes sculptées. Une porte latérale possède un linteau taillé en forme d'arc et surmonté d'une accolade. Le départ des rampants du mur pignon ouest est décoré, au nord, d'un animal ; au sud, d'un buste d'homme avec tête très stylisée. Le mur pignon Est s'ouvre d'une fenêtre à arc en tiers-point.
English translation
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History
Modest Morbihan chapel with a single nave whose roof structure presents collar beams adorned with sculpted heads. A side door has a lintel cut in the form of an arch and surmounted by an ogee. The departure of the rampants of the west gable wall is decorated, to the north, with an animal; to the south, with a bust of a man with very stylised head. The east gable wall opens with a pointed arch window.
Nearby in the register
- Motte castrale du Roc'hsite archéologiqueunder 1 mi
- Chapelle Saint-Guénaëlchapelle1 mi
- Manoir du Lazmanoir3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.