Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix de cimetière
Aiffres, Deux-Sèvres, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix de cimetière : classement par arrêté du 22 mars 1889
- Protection dates
- 1889/03/22 : classé MH
- Type
- croix de cimetière
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Aiffres
- Département
- Deux-Sèvres
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.28161, -0.41382
- Mérimée reference
- PA00101163
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 LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — Géoportail
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1621 map "Carte du Pais d'Aunis Ville et Gouvernement de la Rochelle." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le Poitou compte un certain nombre de lanternes des morts et de croix de cimetière. Ces dernières présentent un fût élancé en plein, sans lanterne. Elles sont en général placées sur un emmarchement à plusieurs degrés. Celle d'Aiffres est constituée par un pilier de section quadrilobée qui se termine en cône.
English translation
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History
Poitou has a certain number of lanterns of the dead and cemetery crosses. The latter present an elongated solid shaft, without lantern. They are generally placed on a base with several steps. That of Aiffres is constituted by a pillar of quadrilobed section which terminates in a cone.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.