Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix du Point du Jour
Saint-Allouestre, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix du Point du Jour (cad. ZE 194) : inscription par arrêté du 20 mars 1934
- Protection dates
- 1934/03/20 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix de chemin
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété d'une société privée
- Lieu-dit
- Enclos de l'église paroissiale du bourg de Saint-Allouestre
- Commune
- Saint-Allouestre
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.92002, -2.72087
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091656
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 1695 map "Carte de l'Evesche de Nantes." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Grand fût octogonal dont la croix est réduite à une sorte de crucifix creusé dans un bloc rectangulaire avec sommet en pointe. La Vierge est sculptée de façon identique au verso.
English translation
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History
Large octagonal shaft of which the cross is reduced to a sort of crucifix hollowed out in a rectangular block with pointed top. The Virgin is sculpted identically on the reverse.
Nearby in the register
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- Dolmen de Coët-er-Ruidolmen1 mi
- Cimetièrecimetière2 mi
- Château de Kerguéhennec et ses dépendanceschâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.