Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix de Sainte-Anne
Roussac, Haute-Vienne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix de Sainte-Anne : inscription par arrêté du 15 octobre 1985
- Protection dates
- 1985/10/15 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix monumentale
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- chemin rural de Sainte-Anne
- Commune
- Roussac
- Département
- Haute-Vienne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.07371, 1.20482
- Mérimée reference
- PA00100431
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 1607 map "Poictou" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Les quatre branches sont de largeur égale et symétriques. Les bras et le sommet sont trilobés. Le fût est octogonal dans sa partie haute et passe au carré à la base. A l'ouest de la croix, l'imposant autel se compose d'un parallélépipède rectangle et d'un tailloir au profil formé d'une bande sur chanfrein.
English translation
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History
The four branches are of equal width and symmetrical. The arms and the top are trilobed. The shaft is octagonal in its upper part and passes to the square at the base. To the west of the cross, the imposing altar is composed of a rectangular parallelepiped and a tailloir with a profile formed by a band on a chamfer.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.