Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix du cimetière de Verduzan
Castéra-Verduzan, Gers, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix du cimetière de Verduzan : inscription par arrêté du 4 février 1927
- Protection dates
- 1927/02/04 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix de cimetière
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Castéra-Verduzan
- Département
- Gers
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.80454, 0.42032
- Mérimée reference
- PA00094760
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesBibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)IGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1742 map "Bearn, Bigorre, Armagnac." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Croix à branche en pierre du pays, présentant sur une face le Christ crucifié avec l'inscription INRI. Sur l'autre face, est représentée la Vierge drapée, les pieds reposant sur une tête d'ange. Sous la branche de la croix, face sud, se trouve Saint-Pierre tenant une clé. Sur l'autre face, un saint.
English translation
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History
Cross with branch in local stone, presenting on one face Christ crucified with the inscription INRI. On the other face, a draped Virgin is represented, her feet resting on an angel's head. Beneath the cross branch, south face, is Saint Peter holding a key. On the other face, a saint.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.