Croix de l'ancien cimetière Saint-Projet

English translation

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History

The shaft of the cross alone is ancient. The cross proper was remade at the beginning of the 20th century, a faithful reproduction of the old one or inspired by a cross of that period. The cross is designated in a document of 1518. A square plinth surmounted by a base of the same form passing to the octagon, serves as base to the shaft. This shaft is surrounded by four pilasters, kinds of buttresses surmounted by small bell towers and joined in the middle by arcs with counter-curves, whose outer curve is covered with curled cabbage leaves and the inner curve polylobed. These arcs serve as canopies to four small statues. The feet of these figures rest on hexagonal half-engaged pilasters, rising between the buttresses and covered with flamboyant ornaments. Above the canopies, the octagonal shaft rises while narrowing until the cornice.