Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix de carrefour
Saint-Jean-le-Vieux, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix de carrefour : inscription par arrêté du 19 mars 1971
- Protection dates
- 1971/03/19 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix de chemin
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- place Centrale
- Commune
- Saint-Jean-le-Vieux
- Département
- Pyrénées-Atlantiques
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.16570, -1.19381
- Mérimée reference
- PA00084502
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 1636 map "Aquitaniae descriptio" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Cette croix située à l'intersection des chemins empruntés par les pèlerins de Saint-Jacques, pourrait dater du 17e siècle. La croix est scellée sur une colonne monolithe terminée par un chapiteau. Elle repose sur un piédestal de quatre marches sur lequel est gravée une inscription récente. Des fleurons en boule ornent le sommet et les extrémités des tranches de la croix. Les têtes d'anges qui soutiennent les bras s'enveloppent d'ailes.
English translation
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History
This cross situated at the intersection of the paths taken by pilgrims of Saint-Jacques could date from the 17th century. The cross is sealed on a monolithic column terminated by a capital. It rests on a pedestal of four steps on which a recent inscription is engraved. Ball-shaped fleurons ornament the top and the ends of the arms of the cross. The heads of angels which support the arms wrap themselves in wings.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Pierreégliseunder 1 mi
- Camp romain et vicus routiercampunder 1 mi
- Chapelle Saint-Jean-Baptiste d'Urrutiachapelleunder 1 mi
- Chapelle Saint-Blaisechapelleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.