Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix du Champ-des-Morts
Saint-Marcel, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix du Champ-des-Morts (cad. AB 6) : inscription par arrêté du 6 juin 1933
- Protection dates
- 1933/06/06 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix monumentale
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Saint-Marcel
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.80585, -2.41754
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091693
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 1695 map "Carte de l'Evesche de Nantes." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Croix à médaillon sur un fût en granit. Crucifixion sur une face ; Pietà et deux saintes femmes sur l'autre. La croix est érigée sur une sorte d'autel.
English translation
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History
Cross with medallion on a granite shaft. Crucifixion on one face; Pietà and two holy women on the other. The cross is erected on a sort of altar.
Nearby in the register
- Croix Catherinecroix monumentaleunder 1 mi
- Six dolmensdolmenunder 1 mi
- Allée couverte de Trélanallée couverte1 mi
- Croix du 17e sièclecroix monumentale2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.