Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix en pierre du 14e siècle
Orcet, Puy-de-Dôme, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix en pierre du 14e siècle : classement par arrêté du 16 juin 1907
- Protection dates
- 1907/06/16 : classé MH
- Type
- croix de chemin
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Orcet
- Département
- Puy-de-Dôme
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.70161, 3.16430
- Mérimée reference
- PA00092228
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 1712 map "Les Provinces et Gouvernemens Du Lionnois ...." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Taillée dans de la pierre de Volvic, la croix présente, dans un quatrefeuilles ajouré aux lobes fleuronnés, le Christ d'une face, la Vierge à l'Enfant de l'autre, accompagnée de personnages adossés les uns aux autres.
English translation
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History
Carved from Volvic stone, the cross presents, in an open quatrefoil with floriated lobes, Christ on one face, the Virgin with Child on the other, accompanied by figures set back-to-back with one another.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Maryégliseunder 1 mi
- Borne armoriéeborne1 mi
- Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Gergovieéglise2 mi
- Maison des Moinesmaison2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.