Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix du cimetière
Le Louroux, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix du cimetière (cad. G 165) : inscription par arrêté du 18 avril 1973
- Protection dates
- 1973/04/18 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix de cimetière
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Later work
- 4e quart 20e siècle
- Dates
- 1994
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Le Louroux
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.16181, 0.78622
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097842
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 1592 map "Topographia Aug. Turon Ducatus et confinium Gallia Cestica ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Sur un soubassement formant autel, un socle prismatique rectangulaire porte la croix où le Christ est figuré sur chaque face, et qui est accompagnée des statuettes de la Vierge et de Saint-Jean. Des travaux de restauration ont eu lieu en 1994.
English translation
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History
On a base forming an altar, a rectangular prismatic plinth bears the cross where Christ is figured on each face, and which is accompanied by statuettes of the Virgin and Saint John. Restoration work took place in 1994.
Nearby in the register
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- Ancienne ferme abbatialefermeunder 1 mi
- Ruines du château de Fontenay-Isoréchâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.