Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix de cimetière
Airoux, Aude, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument
- Type
- croix de cimetière
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Airoux
- Département
- Aude
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.36357, 1.86600
- Mérimée reference
- PA00102509
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1843 map "Carte de l'Etat-Major 1:40,000 (1820-1866)" (IGN France — Géoportail).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La croix se trouvait au nord de l'allée centrale du cimetière ; elle a été déposée et scellée au sud du chevet de l'église avec trois autres croix (avant 1964). C'est une stèle discoïdale portant un décor de cordons sur la tranche ; une face ornée d'une croix pattée, revers plan sans décor. Désinscrite en tant qu'immeuble, une demande d'inscription a été faite au titre des objets.
English translation
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History
The cross was located to the north of the central aisle of the cemetery; it has been removed and sealed to the south of the church chevet with three other crosses (before 1964). It is a discoidal stele bearing decoration of cords on the edge; one face decorated with a cross pattée, reverse flat without decoration. Deinscribed as a building, a request for inscription has been made under the heading of objects.
Nearby in the register
- Châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Châteauchâteau2 mi
- Église Saint-Baudileéglise2 mi
- Canal du Midicanal2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.