Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix de cimetière
Hosta, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix de cimetière (cad. D 140) : inscription par arrêté du 8 avril 1971
- Protection dates
- 1971/04/08 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix de cimetière
- Main period of construction
- 3e quart 17e siècle
- Dates
- 1669
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Hosta
- Département
- Pyrénées-Atlantiques
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.15928, -1.08841
- Mérimée reference
- PA00084399
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Aquitaniae descriptio" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le Christ est sculpté en champlevé, avec une auréole dentelée. Il pourrait vouloir reproduire une croix pectorale d'origine orientale. Sont également représentés les instruments de la Passion (clous, marteau). La croix porte l'inscription "Iesus Nazareus".
English translation
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History
The Christ is sculpted in champlevé, with a denticulated aureole. It might seek to reproduce a pectoral cross of oriental origin. Also represented are the instruments of the Passion (nails, hammer). The cross bears the inscription 'Iesus Nazareus'.
Nearby in the register
- Camp protohistoriquesite archéologique2 mi
- Ancienne chapelle de Saint-Jacqueschapelle2 mi
- Croix de carrefour dite Croix Harispecroix de chemin3 mi
- Croix navarraisecroix de cimetière3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.