Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix de chemin (ou calvaire de Sainte-Marguerite)
Escoutoux, Puy-de-Dôme, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix de chemin : classement par arrêté du 10 août 1951
- Protection dates
- 1951/08/10 : classé MH
- Type
- croix de chemin, calvaire monumental
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- Hameau de Sainte-Marguerite
- Lieu-dit
- Sainte-Marguerite
- Commune
- Escoutoux
- Département
- Puy-de-Dôme
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.83092, 3.52159
- Mérimée reference
- PA00092122
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1776 map "52 Clermont." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Les branches de cette croix du 16e siècle, ainsi que son fût, sont cylindriques. Sur l'une des faces, le Christ crucifié ; sur l'autre, la Vierge à l'Enfant. A chacun des quatre angles supérieurs du socle, les personnages "pleurants" féminins revêtus de draperie à plis.
English translation
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History
The branches of this cross of the 16th century, as well as its shaft, are cylindrical. On one of the faces, the crucified Christ; on the other, the Virgin and Child. At each of the four upper angles of the base, female "weeping" figures clad in drapery with folds.
Nearby in the register
- Château de Franc-Séjourmanoir2 mi
- Pont de Moutier ou du Navirepont2 mi
- Abbaye du Moutierabbaye2 mi
- Usine du Maycoutellerie2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.