Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix
Arzens, Aude, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix datée de 1649, en face de la mairie : inscription par arrêté du 27 avril 1948
- Protection dates
- 1948/04/27 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix monumentale
- Main period of construction
- 2e quart 17e siècle
- Dates
- 1649
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Arzens
- Département
- Aude
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.19884, 2.21108
- Mérimée reference
- PA00102542
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 LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Aquitaniae descriptio" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La section octogonale du socle se raccorde à la base rectangulaire par des congés d'angle à deux pentes, légèrement concaves. La colonnette est cylindrique, ainsi que les bras de la croix. La face antérieure de la traverse porte, en relief, une plate-bande portant une inscription gravée. A la croisée des bras, cette plate-bande se raccorde avec un médaillon en forme de mandorle portant l'inscription IHS. Le montant et les bras de la croix sont ornés, à intervalles réguliers, tantôt d'un côté, tantôt de l'autre, de coquilles en relief.
English translation
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History
The octagonal section of the base connects to the rectangular base by angle concaves with two slopes, slightly concave. The columnette is cylindrical, as are the arms of the cross. The front face of the cross-beam bears, in relief, a flat band bearing an engraved inscription. At the crossing of the arms, this flat band connects with a medallion in the shape of a mandorla bearing the inscription IHS. The upright and the arms of the cross are ornamented, at regular intervals, sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, with shells in relief.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Genèségliseunder 1 mi
- Châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Croixcroix monumentale2 mi
- Église Saint-Germainéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.