Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix de Montsarrac
Séné, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix de Montsarrac (non cadastré ; domaine public) : inscription par arrêté du 16 février 1929
- Protection dates
- 1929/02/16 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix monumentale
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle, 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- Montsarrac
- Commune
- Séné
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.59586, -2.71673
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091740
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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 bannière située au carrefour près du village de Montsarrac, en granit sculpté et peint. La base ancienne n'existe plus. Fût octogonal surmonté d'un noeud à torsade, lequel supporte un cube de pierre sculpté. Sur une face, le Christ en croix entre la Vierge et Saint-Jean ; sur l'autre, une Pietà. Sur un côté, Saint-Jean-Baptiste et, au-dessus, la tête du Christ. Sur l'autre, Sainte-Madeleine. Au-dessus, toit en bâtière orné de têtes d'anges et de choux frisés, et couronné d'un fleuron avec accolade à peine indiquée du côté de la Crucifixion.
English translation
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History
Banner cross situated at the crossroads near the village of Montsarrac, in sculpted and painted granite. The old base no longer exists. Octagonal shaft topped with a knotted twist, which supports a cube of sculpted stone. On one face, the Christ on the cross between the Virgin and Saint John; on the other, a Pietà. On one side, Saint John the Baptist and, above, the head of Christ. On the other, Saint Mary Magdalene. Above, a mansard roof adorned with heads of angels and curled cabbages, and crowned with a fleuron with barely indicated accolade on the side of the Crucifixion.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.