Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix de granit du 15e siècle dite Croix de Mons
Chalinargues, Cantal, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix de granit du 15s : classement par arrêté du 18 novembre 1922
- Protection dates
- 1922/11/18 : classé MH
- Type
- croix monumentale
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- Mons-de-Ferrand
- Commune
- Chalinargues
- Département
- Cantal
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.15886, 2.95565
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093485
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 — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1637 map "Aquitania" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Croix du 15e siècle, entièrement taillée dans le granit, formant une rosace ajourée sur les lobes de laquelle sont sculptés, outre le Christ en croix avec la Vierge et Saint-Jean, onze apôtres et trois anges répartis sur les deux faces. Au somment du fût octogonal, quatre têtes d'anges.
English translation
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History
Cross of the 15th century, entirely hewn from granite, forming an openwork rosace on the lobes of which are sculpted, besides the Christ on the cross with the Virgin and Saint John, eleven apostles and three angels distributed over the two faces. At the summit of the octagonal shaft, four angel heads.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Barthélémyéglise1 mi
- Église Sainte-Anastasieéglise1 mi
- Église Saint-Hilaire de Moissacéglise1 mi
- Dolmen de Recoulesdolmen2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.