Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix de cimetière du 16e siècle
Valbeleix, Puy-de-Dôme, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix de cimetière du 16e siècle, aujourd'hui au nord de l'église : classement par arrêté du 16 avril 1904
- Protection dates
- 1904/04/16 : classé MH
- Type
- croix de cimetière
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Valbeleix
- Département
- Puy-de-Dôme
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.46791, 2.98817
- Mérimée reference
- PA00092453
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1769 map "53 Brioude, Issoire." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Croix du 16e siècle en lave de Besse, dont le fût est orné de trois personnages superposés, celui du haut représente la Vierge portant le Christ descendu de croix, celui du milieu représentant Saint-Pierre.
English translation
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History
16th-century cross in Besse lava stone, whose shaft is decorated with three superimposed figures, the upper one representing the Virgin Mary holding the Christ taken down from the cross, the middle one representing Saint Peter.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.