Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix ancienne
Saint-Vincent-sur-Oust, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix ancienne (cad. AA 147) : inscription par arrêté du 8 juin 1925
- Protection dates
- 1925/06/08 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix monumentale
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- place de la Mairie
- Commune
- Saint-Vincent-sur-Oust
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.69991, -2.14678
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091725
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
Ancienne croix de cimetière installée sur la place, près de la mairie, après la démolition de l'ancienne église. La croix se compose d'un fût prismatique octogonal sur base carrée devenant octogonale avec pénétrations. Le Christ et la Vierge occupent chacune des deux faces. Des personnages faisant consoles soulagent les bras de la croix. Un gâble avec crochets la surmonte.
English translation
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History
Former cemetery cross installed on the square, near the town hall, after the demolition of the old church. The cross consists of an octagonal prismatic shaft on square base becoming octagonal with interpenetrations. Christ and the Virgin each occupy one of the two faces. Figures acting as consoles relieve the arms of the cross. A gable with crockets crowns it.
Nearby in the register
- Cimetièrecimetière2 mi
- Croix de Tréhatcroix monumentale2 mi
- Croix de Sourdéaccroix monumentale2 mi
- Château de Sourdéacchâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.