Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix des Buttes
Questembert, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix des Buttes (cad. AK 127) : inscription par arrêté du 8 mai 1933
- Protection dates
- 1933/05/08 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix monumentale
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Questembert
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.66208, -2.46033
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091598
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 1695 map "Carte de l'Evesche de Nantes." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Croix de carrefour qui aurait, selon la tradition, été érigée après la victoire d'Alain le Grand, duc de Bretagne, sur les Normands, en 890. Un côté du fût semble porter les armes des "Carné".
English translation
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History
Wayside cross which, according to tradition, was erected after the victory of Alain the Great, Duke of Brittany, over the Normans, in 890. One side of the shaft appears to bear the arms of the "Carné".
Nearby in the register
- Vieilles halleshalleunder 1 mi
- Presbytèrepresbytèreunder 1 mi
- Cimetièrecimetièreunder 1 mi
- Chapelle Saint-Michelchapelleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.