Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle Sainte-Barbe
Plouharnel, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle Sainte-Barbe (cad. C 596) : inscription par arrêté du 15 juin 1925
- Protection dates
- 1925/06/15 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- Sainte-Barbe
- Commune
- Plouharnel
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.60674, -3.13538
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091520
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 LibrariesLeiden University Libraries
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
Chapelle rectangulaire. Banc de pierre en cascade suivant la pente de tout le pourtour. La chapelle a été intérieurement saccagée en 1876. Voûtes en bois avec peintures à compartiments. Quelques crochets et amortissements sculptés. Deux statues incomplètes surmontent les contreforts d'angle de la façade.
English translation
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History
Rectangular chapel. Cascade stone bench following the slope all around the perimeter. The chapel was internally desecrated in 1876. Wooden vaults with compartmented paintings. Some sculpted crockets and finials. Two incomplete statues surmount the corner buttresses of the facade.
Nearby in the register
- Tête des alignements de Sainte-Barbealignementunder 1 mi
- Vingt-sept menhirs dits de Sainte-Barbealignementunder 1 mi
- Alignements du Vieux-Moulinalignementunder 1 mi
- Dolmen situé au lieudit Kergazecsite archéologiqueunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.