Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Cimetière
Sulniac, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Croix (cad. AA 98) : inscription par arrêté du 5 octobre 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/10/05 : inscrit MH
- Type
- cimetière
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- place de l'Eglise
- Commune
- Sulniac
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.67617, -2.57112
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091746
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Vieille croix de cimetière élevée sur un socle de granit. Fût cylindrique surmonté d'une partie en forme de parallèlépipède. Méplat formant un panneau en anse de panier sur les faces principales. Le tout est surmonté d'une petite croix. La face principale représente la Crucifixion. Une Pietà occupe la face postérieure (mutilée). Sur les côtés, au sud, Saint-Jean-Baptiste ; au nord, Sainte-Marie-Madeleine.
English translation
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History
Old cemetery cross raised on a granite base. Cylindrical shaft surmounted by a part in the form of a parallelepiped. Flat surface forming a panel in basket-handle form on the main faces. All is surmounted by a small cross. The main face represents the Crucifixion. A Pietà occupies the back face (mutilated). On the sides, to the south, Saint-John-the-Baptist; to the north, Saint-Mary-Magdalene.
Nearby in the register
- Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Cranchapelle2 mi
- Chapelle et crypteschapelle2 mi
- Fontaine du Saintfontaine2 mi
- Restes du château de Ferrièreschâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.