Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle Saint-Laurent
Silfiac, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Le pignon Sud (cad. ZT 23) : inscription par arrêté du 15 juin 1925
- Protection dates
- 1925/06/15 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Dates
- 1655
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- Saint-Laurent
- Commune
- Silfiac
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.13447, -3.15479
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091744
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 LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1787 map "157 Uzel." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Chapelle en forme de croix à chevet cassé. La porte de la sacristie présente une exécution gothique en anse de panier avec accolade et fleuron, une crédence à droite du maître-autel et deux niches avec dais. Clocher daté de 1655. A l'extérieur, le transept sud présente un ensemble de sculptures : porte ogivale, oculus, petites niches, écussons avec heaume et animaux héraldiques.
English translation
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History
Chapel in the form of a cross with broken chevet. The sacristy door presents a Gothic execution in the form of a basket arch with hood-mold and fleuron, a credence to the right of the high altar and two niches with canopies. Bell tower dated 1655. Externally, the south transept presents a set of sculptures: pointed arch door, oculus, small niches, escutcheons with helm and heraldic animals.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.