Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix grecque
Fournols, Puy-de-Dôme, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix grecque, sur la petite place (cad. C 81) : inscription par arrêté du 22 juillet 1963
- Protection dates
- 1963/07/22 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix monumentale
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Fournols
- Département
- Puy-de-Dôme
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.51670, 3.58856
- Mérimée reference
- PA00092129
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
IGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1712 map "Les Provinces et Gouvernemens Du Lionnois ...." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ancienne croix de cimetière présentant deux branches cylindriques égales. Sur l'une des faces, un Christ cloué. Sur l'autre, une Vierge à l'Enfant. L'ornementation ajourée comporte des guirlandes de cordons nervurés formant encadrement autour des branches. Un collier métallique la fixe au sommet d'un fût élevé de forme octogonale dont la base carrée repose sur un socle massif trapézoïdal, carré à sa base.
English translation
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History
Former cemetery cross presenting two equal cylindrical branches. On one face, a crucified Christ. On the other, a Virgin and Child. The pierced ornamentation comprises garlands of ribbed cords forming a frame around the branches. A metal collar fixes it at the top of a shaft of octagonal form whose square base rests on a massive trapezoidal base, square at its bottom.