Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Calvaire
Sainte-Geneviève-sur-Argence, Aveyron, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Calvaire, devant le portail de l'église d'Orlhague : inscription par arrêté du 19 mars 1927
- Protection dates
- 1927/03/19 : inscrit MH
- Type
- calvaire monumental
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Sainte-Geneviève-sur-Argence
- Département
- Aveyron
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.81579, 2.75405
- Mérimée reference
- PA00094151
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 1783 map "15 Aurillac." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le piédestal semble avoir servi d'autel. La croix est à personnages, avec une tête d'ange au piédestal.
English translation
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History
The pedestal appears to have served as an altar. The cross has figures, with an angel's head at the pedestal.
Nearby in the register
- Croix du 16e sièclecroix monumentaleunder 1 mi
- Chapelle de Melschapelle1 mi
- Chapelle de Laussacchapelle3 mi
- Église d'Albinhacéglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.