Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix et pierre des morts
Sagnat, Creuse, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix et pierre des morts situés sur la place publique : inscription par arrêté du 15 juin 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/06/15 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix monumentale
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Sagnat
- Département
- Creuse
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.30420, 1.62889
- Mérimée reference
- PA00100144
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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
La croix est adossée à une dalle moulurée sur laquelle les cercueils sont déposés avant d'être portés à l'église.
English translation
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History
The cross is placed against a moulded slab on which coffins are set down before being carried to the church.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Pierre-ès-Lienségliseunder 1 mi
- Dolmen dit La Pierre Cubertesite archéologique2 mi
- Ancienne égliseéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.