Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix de Saint-Jean-du-Poteau
Plumelin, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix de Saint-Jean-du-Poteau (cad. ZD 66) : inscription par arrêté du 20 mars 1934
- Protection dates
- 1934/03/20 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix monumentale
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- Saint-Jean-du-Poteau
- Commune
- Plumelin
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.89462, -2.91098
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091550
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 1708 map "Le Bretagne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Croix en bordure de la nationale, dans un renfoncement ménagé contre un talus. Fût octogonal élancé, supportant le Christ, la Vierge et Saint-Jean, surmontés d'un petit gâble au fronton aigu.
English translation
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History
Cross by the edge of the main road, in a recess made against a slope. Slender octagonal shaft, supporting Christ, the Virgin and Saint John, surmounted by a small gable with acute pediment.
Nearby in the register
- Fontaine de Saint-Jean-du-Poteaufontaineunder 1 mi
- Croix de Kercloareccroix monumentale2 mi
- Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Manéguen et fontainechapelle2 mi
- Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Fosseéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.