Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix de Kercloarec
Plumelin, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix de Kercloarec (non cadastré ; domaine public) : inscription par arrêté du 29 mars 1935
- Protection dates
- 1935/03/29 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix monumentale
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété du département
- Lieu-dit
- Kercloirec
- Commune
- Plumelin
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.86199, -2.89469
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091549
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 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
Croix avec autel, située sur une route. Le fût de la croix a pour base une sorte de tabernacle avec panneaux à personnages et ailerons. La croix elle-même est environnée de motifs en forme de esse. Sur la croix, représentation de la crucifixion.
English translation
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History
Cross with altar, located on a road. The shaft of the cross has as its base a sort of tabernacle with panels bearing figures and ailerons. The cross itself is surrounded by motifs in the form of esses. On the cross, representation of the crucifixion.
Nearby in the register
- Dolmen dit de Kermorvantdolmen2 mi
- Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Fosseéglise2 mi
- Fontainefontaine2 mi
- Croix de Saint-Jean-du-Poteaucroix monumentale2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.