Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix sculptée du 14e siècle, à Châtenet
Azat-Châtenet, Creuse, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix sculptée du 14e siècle, située au bord de la route, à Châtenet : inscription par arrêté du 9 mars 1927
- Protection dates
- 1927/03/09 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix de chemin
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- Châtenet
- Commune
- Azat-Châtenet
- Département
- Creuse
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.09011, 1.76448
- Mérimée reference
- PA00100000
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 1768 map "32 Le Dorat." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Croix en granit sculptée sur les deux faces du même motif : le Christ en croix. Au-dessus, une tête vue de face touche au couronnement de la croix (Dieu le Père ?). Entre cette tête et celle du Christ, une figuration grossière paraît être un oiseau (colombe du Saint-Esprit ?). L'ensemble de la sculpture pourrait ainsi représenter la Trinité.
English translation
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History
Cross in sculptured granite on both faces with the same motif: Christ on the cross. Above, a face seen frontally touches the crowning of the cross (God the Father ?). Between this head and that of Christ, a crude representation appears to be a bird (dove of the Holy Spirit ?). The ensemble of the sculpture could thus represent the Trinity.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.