Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix située sur la place centrale
Sainte-Sévère-sur-Indre, Indre, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix située sur la place centrale : inscription par arrêté du 24 avril 1936
- Protection dates
- 1936/04/24 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix monumentale
- Main period of construction
- 2e quart 16e siècle
- Dates
- 1543
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Sainte-Sévère-sur-Indre
- Département
- Indre
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.48580, 2.07013
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097464
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 LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1768 map "11 La Chatre." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La croix-calvaire se compose d'un socle, d'un fût de pilastres à quatre faces, couronné d'un chapiteau de caractère François Ier. Le tout est surmonté d'une croix. La croix porte d'un côté le Christ, de l'autre la Vierge à l'Enfant.
English translation
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History
The wayside cross consists of a base, a shaft of pilasters with four faces, crowned with a capital of François Ier character. The whole is surmounted by a cross. The cross bears on one side the Christ, on the other the Virgin and Child.
Nearby in the register
- Ancienne hallehalleunder 1 mi
- Porte de ville, dite Porte du Marchéporte de villeunder 1 mi
- Château médiévalchâteau fortunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.