Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix de l'ancien cimetière
Hendaye, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix de l'ancien cimetière : inscription par arrêté du 19 mai 1925
- Protection dates
- 1925/05/19 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix de cimetière
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Hendaye
- Département
- Pyrénées-Atlantiques
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.35884, -1.77443
- Mérimée reference
- PA00084396
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — Géoportail
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Bovrdelois, pais de Medoc et la prevoste de Born" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La croix de forme latine porte une inscription : "o crux ave spes unica". Elle est posée sur un fût de colonne cannelé avec chapiteau, lui-même posé sur un cube orné de signes sur ses quatre faces : soleil, lune, étoile, ovale coupé en quatre parties, chacune contenant un A fréquent sur les stèles basques.
English translation
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History
The cross of Latin form bears an inscription: "o crux ave spes unica". It is placed on a fluted column shaft with capital, itself placed on a cube adorned with signs on its four faces: sun, moon, star, oval divided into four parts, each containing an A frequent on Basque stelae.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.