Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix Fitzgerald, anciennement dans le cimetière
Vannes, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix Fitzgerald (cad. BR 166) : inscription par arrêté du 21 mai 1937
- Protection dates
- 1937/05/21 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix de cimetière
- Main period of construction
- 19e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de l'État
- Address
- place Saint-Pierre
- Commune
- Vannes
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.66087, -2.75274
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091781
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 1773 map "7me. Carte Particuliere des Costes de Bretagne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Cette croix ornait la tombe d'un étudiant de l'école Saint-François-Xavier, du nom de Gérald Lentaigne, originaire de Dublin. C'est une croix en calcaire d'inspiration irlandaise. Bras rectilignes, à l'extrémité se joignant par segments demi-circulaires, inscrit dans une sorte de disque ajouré. Terminaison supérieure en deux glacis de pinacles portant une inscription.
English translation
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History
This cross decorated the tomb of a student at the Saint-François-Xavier school, named Gérald Lentaigne, originally from Dublin. It is a limestone cross of Irish inspiration. Rectilinear arms, at the extremity joined by half-circular segments, inscribed within a sort of perforated disc. Upper termination in two slopes of pinnacles bearing an inscription.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Paternégliseunder 1 mi
- Immeuble des anciens Etablissements Petit-Fersusineunder 1 mi
- Préfecturepréfectureunder 1 mi
- Cimetièrecimetièreunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.