Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix de Montlegun
Carcassonne, Aude, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix datée de 1770, sur le chemin de Montlegun : inscription par arrêté du 12 décembre 1946
- Protection dates
- 1946/12/12 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix de chemin
- Main period of construction
- 3e quart 18e siècle
- Dates
- 1770
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- 1 chemin de Ventôse
- Lieu-dit
- Montlegun
- Commune
- Carcassonne
- Département
- Aude
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.20445, 2.39176
- Mérimée reference
- PA00102589
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 1742 map "Composite: Languedoc." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Socle de section carrée à la base, passant à l'octogone par un congé mouluré. Chanfrein continu sur le périmètre de la face supérieure. La croix est un monolithe à section presque carrée. Arêtes verticales abattues. Face ouest anépigraphe. Sur la face est se distingue encore le dessin peu net d'une croix en creux. A la base, tout contre le socle, la date 1770 est grossièrement tracée. Le style du socle et l'usure de ses angles vifs permettent de le dater approximativement du 16e siècle. La croix, aux arêtes encore vives, en a remplacé sans doute une plus ancienne, à la date de 1770.
English translation
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History
Base of square section, passing to octagonal through a moulded fillet. Continuous chamfer on the perimeter of the upper face. The cross is a monolith of almost square section. Vertical arises chamfered. West face without inscription. On the east face can still be distinguished the faint outline of a cross in relief. At the base, right against the base, the date 1770 is roughly traced. The style of the base and the wear on its sharp angles allow it to be dated approximately to the 16th century. The cross, with its arises still sharp, has doubtless replaced an older one, at the date of 1770.
Nearby in the register
- Maison dite de Montmorencymaison1 mi
- Cité de Carcassonnefortification d'agglomération1 mi
- Chapelle Notre-Dame de l’Abbayechapelle1 mi
- Petit Puitspuits1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.