Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Calvaire de Port-Arthur
Pluméliau, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Calvaire de Port-Arthur (XB non cadastré) : inscription par arrêté du 29 mars 1935
- Protection dates
- 1935/03/29 : inscrit MH
- Type
- calvaire monumental
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- Port Arthur
- Commune
- Pluméliau
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.96839, -2.99647
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091545
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 1786 map "Bretagne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Croix en bordure de chemin, constituée d'un fût traité en colonne corinthienne. Le soubassement est en forme d'autel avec motifs d'angelots ou anges et agneau au centre. Le fût est décoré d'hermines supportant le Christ en croix, encadré de la Vierge et de Saint-Jean. Le Christ est surmonté de Dieu le Père et du Saint-Esprit.
English translation
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History
Cross at the edge of the path, consisting of a shaft treated as a Corinthian column. The base is in the form of an altar with motifs of cherubs or angels and lamb at the centre. The shaft is decorated with ermines supporting the Christ on the cross, framed by the Virgin and Saint John. The Christ is surmounted by God the Father and the Holy Spirit.
Nearby in the register
- Chapelle de Saint-Nicodèmechapelle1 mi
- Chapelle Saint-Nicolas-des-Eauxchapelle2 mi
- Moulin de Rimaisonmoulin à farine2 mi
- Chapelle de la Trinitéchapelle2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.