Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Calvaire de la Croix-de-Cohazé
Saint-Thuriau, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Calvaire de la Croix-de-Cohazé (cad. ZV 1) : inscription par arrêté du 8 mai 1933
- Protection dates
- 1933/05/08 : inscrit MH
- Type
- calvaire monumental
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- Cohazé
- Commune
- Saint-Thuriau
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.02185, -2.97370
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091721
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 1786 map "Bretagne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Croix située au sud de la chapelle du village de Cohazé. Socle carré exhaussé de trois marches. Fût en granit avec une sorte de chapiteau supportant le Christ en croix au recto, et la Vierge à l'Enfant au verso. Ces sujets sont disposés dans une sorte de dais avec quatre colonnettes dégagées.
English translation
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History
Cross situated to the south of the chapel of the village of Cohazé. Square base raised on three steps. Granite shaft with a sort of capital supporting Christ on the cross on the front, and the Virgin and Child on the back. These subjects are arranged within a sort of canopy with four detached colonettes.
Nearby in the register
- Chapelle Notre-Dame de Joie de Cohazéchapelleunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Thuriauéglise1 mi
- Château de Rimaisonchâteau2 mi
- Moulin de Rimaisonmoulin à farine2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.