Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Gildas
Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Eglise (cad. AN 248, 249) : classement par liste de 1840
- Protection dates
- 1840 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- Moyen Age, 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.49989, -2.83972
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091674
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 LibrariesLeiden University Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1773 map "7me. Carte Particuliere des Costes de Bretagne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Au 6e siècle, Gildas fonde un monastère dans lequel il se fait enterrer. Après les raids normands du 10e siècle, les reliques sont emportées et l'abbaye tombe en ruine. Reconstruite au 10e siècle, puis au 17e.
English translation
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History
In the 6th century, Gildas founded a monastery in which he had himself buried. After the Norman raids of the 10th century, the relics were carried away and the abbey fell into ruin. Rebuilt in the 10th century, then in the 17th.
Nearby in the register
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- Menhirs de Clos-er-Bésite archéologique2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.