Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix de chemin dite de l'Ouradour
Bassignac-le-Haut, Corrèze, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix de chemin dite de l'Ouradour : classement par arrêté du 24 janvier 1927
- Protection dates
- 1927/01/24 : classé MH
- Type
- croix de chemin
- Main period of construction
- Moyen Age
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- C.I.C. 72
- Commune
- Bassignac-le-Haut
- Département
- Corrèze
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.21099, 2.07217
- Mérimée reference
- PA00099663
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 1780 map "14 Mauriac." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Croix en granit, haute de 2, 30m. Sur sa face principale est le Christ en croix ; au verso, la Vierge tenant l'Enfant, le tout encadré dans un quadrilobe ajouré. Le fût est de section carrée avec chanfreins aux angles ornés de demi boules saillantes.
English translation
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History
Granite cross, 2.30m high. On its main face is Christ on the cross; on the reverse, the Virgin holding the Child, all framed in an open quadrilobe. The shaft is of square section with bevelled angles adorned with projecting half-balls.
Nearby in the register
- Croix couverte de l'ancien cimetièrecroix de cimetièreunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Pierre-ès-Lienségliseunder 1 mi
- Croix du 12e siècle dite du Ciriexcroix monumentale1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.