Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix du Marchidial
Saint-Nectaire, Puy-de-Dôme, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix du Marchidial : classement par liste de 1889
- Protection dates
- 1889 : classé MH
- Type
- croix monumentale
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- place du Marchidial
- Commune
- Saint-Nectaire
- Département
- Puy-de-Dôme
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.59110, 2.99421
- Mérimée reference
- PA00092373
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
Croix en lave de la fin du 15e ou du 16e siècle. La face antérieure est sculptée d'un Christ ; la face postérieure d'une Pieta portée sur un cul de lampe.
English translation
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History
Cross in lava from the late 15th or 16th century. The front face is carved with a Christ; the back face with a Pieta borne on a corbel.
Nearby in the register
- Thermes du Mont Cornadoreétablissement thermalunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Nectaireégliseunder 1 mi
- Dolmen du Parcdolmenunder 1 mi
- Tumulus-dolmen de la Pennet (ou Pineyre)tumulusunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.