Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix de Bilhac en pierre, du 16e siècle
Polignac, Haute-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix : inscription par arrêté du 11 juin 1930
- Protection dates
- 1930/06/11 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix monumentale
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- Bilhac
- Commune
- Polignac
- Département
- Haute-Loire
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.08087, 3.85083
- Mérimée reference
- PA00092728
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 — GéoportailBibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1777 map "89 Le Puy." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Sur un fût cylindrique orné en haut d'une astragale, en bas de deux astragales et d'une base cubique qui n'est pas de la même épqoue, est supportée une croix dont les croisillons sont de section carrée, terminés par des fleurons ornés de rosaces quadrilobées. La statuette du Christ se trouve sous un lambel, accostée des deux statuettes de Saint-Jean et Sainte-Madeleine dont les têtes ont disparu.
English translation
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History
On a cylindrical shaft ornamented at the top with an astragal, at the bottom with two astragals and a cubic base which is not from the same period, is supported a cross whose arms are of square section, terminated by fleurons ornamented with quadrilobed rosaces. The statuette of Christ is found under a lambel, flanked by the two statuettes of Saint-Jean and Sainte-Madeleine whose heads have disappeared.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Martinégliseunder 1 mi
- Ruines du château fortchâteauunder 1 mi
- Maison du 16e siècle (château de Cheyrac)manoir2 mi
- Pavillon de jardin 1900kiosque2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.