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Borne armoriée

Le Crest, Puy-de-Dôme, France

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Designation
Historic monument
Type
borne
Main period of construction
1er quart 17e siècle
Dates
1603
Ownership
propriété privée
Lieu-dit
la Jonchère
Commune
Le Crest
Département
Puy-de-Dôme
Region
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Country
France
Coordinates
45.68719, 3.14962
Mérimée reference
PA00092099

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Aquitaniae descriptio" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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Cette borne, qui porte à la base de chacune de ses deux faces la date de 1603, est l'une des trois bornes subsistant actuellement d'une suite établie en limite des justices du Crest et de Monton. De forme parallélépipédique, la face tournée vers le sud-ouest est sculptée de l'écu martelé des Beaufort-Canillac ; celle tournée vers le nord-est paraît avoir été bûchée mais la sculpture présentait également un écu. En 2011, le déplacement de la borne armoriée dite C, située au lieu-dit La Jonchère, vers un nouvel emplacement, puis les travaux d'élargissement des chaussées de l'autoroute A75 ont entraîné sa dépose définitive et remis en cause l'inscription à l'inventaire supplémentaire du 3 février 1964 de la borne.

Face : (orienté sud-est en 1964) armoiries de la famille de Beaufort-Canillac, seigneur de Monton, millésime 1603 en pied ; Revers : (orienté nord-est en 1964) armoiries, accotées en deux écus, des familles de Chazeron et de La Roche-Aymon, coseigneurs du Crest au XVe siècle, millésime 1603 en pied

English translation

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This boundary stone, which bears at the base of each of its two faces the date of 1603, is one of three boundary stones currently surviving from a series established at the boundary of the jurisdictions of Crest and Monton. Of parallelepiped form, the face turned towards the south-west is carved with the defaced coat of arms of Beaufort-Canillac; that turned towards the north-east appears to have been axed but the carving likewise presented a coat of arms. In 2011, the displacement of the heraldic boundary stone called C, situated at the place called La Jonchère, to a new location, and then the works for widening the roadways of the A75 motorway led to its permanent removal and called into question the inscription on the supplementary inventory of 3 February 1964 of the boundary stone.

Face: (oriented south-east in 1964) armorial bearings of the family of Beaufort-Canillac, lord of Monton, date 1603 at the base; Reverse: (oriented north-east in 1964) armorial bearings, flanked in two shields, of the families of Chazeron and La Roche-Aymon, co-lords of Crest in the 15th century, date 1603 at the base

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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