Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix de Bouthiry
Le Saint, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix de Bouthiry (cad. A 343) : inscription par arrêté du 17 avril 1931
- Protection dates
- 1931/04/17 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix monumentale
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- Bouthiry
- Commune
- Le Saint
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.11577, -3.56488
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091650
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1750 map "Composite 3: Carte de France." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Croix en granit située sur le placître de la chapelle en ruine de Saint-Adrien. Christ surmonté d'une accolade avec petits crochets sculptés. Au verso, une Vierge. Par côtés, sous les bras de la croix, deux personnages. La croix repose sur une base polygonale qui sert de chapiteau à un fût cylindrique. La base est carrée, avec amortissements. Le tout repose sur un socle réédifié en 1820.
English translation
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History
Granite cross situated on the churchyard of the ruined chapel of Saint-Adrien. Christ surmounted by an ogee with small carved crockets. On the reverse, a Virgin. On the sides, beneath the arms of the cross, two figures. The cross rests on a polygonal base which serves as a capital to a cylindrical shaft. The base is square, with finials. Everything rests on a plinth re-built in 1820.
Nearby in the register
- Ossuaireossuaire2 mi
- Chapelle Neuve et sa fontainechapelle2 mi
- Ossuaireossuaire3 mi
- Église Saint-Pierre et Saint-Pauléglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.