Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix en fer forgé
Arques, Aude, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix en fer forgé, dans la nef de l'église : inscription par arrêté du 27 avril 1948
- Protection dates
- 1948/04/27 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix monumentale
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Arques
- Département
- Aude
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 42.95265, 2.37428
- Mérimée reference
- PA00102540
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 1777 map "19 Carcassonne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Cette croix devait primitivement se trouver à l'extérieur. Le montant et les bras sont constitués par du fer carré, divisé au niveau de la croisée, dessinant quatre quarts-de-cercle tangents. Quatre manchons massifs maintiennent la liaison à l'insertion de ces arcs. Les fleurs terminales sont venues de forge, mais il y manque les pétales. Les sépales, tous conservés, sont très larges et se recourbent en arrière. A la croisée des bras, l'évidement a été garni par un petit feuillard recourbé, dessinant quatre lobes aigus.
English translation
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History
This cross was originally to be found outside. The upright and arms are made of square iron, divided at the crossing level, drawing four tangent quarter-circles. Four massive sleeves maintain the connection at the insertion of these arcs. The terminal flowers came from the forge, but the petals are missing. The sepals, all preserved, are very wide and curve back. At the crossing of the arms, the hollow was filled with a small curved strip, drawing four sharp lobes.
Nearby in the register
- Châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Ancien château seigneurialchâteau3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.