Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix du lavoir
Castans, Aude, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix du lavoir, au hameau de la Viale : inscription par arrêté du 13 avril 1948
- Protection dates
- 1948/04/13 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix monumentale
- Main period of construction
- 2e quart 17e siècle
- Dates
- 1640
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- Hameau de la Viale
- Commune
- Castans
- Département
- Aude
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.40645, 2.48462
- Mérimée reference
- PA00102622
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 1636 map "Aquitaniae descriptio" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Croix pattée en pierre, sur socle. Sur la face sud, à la croisée des bras, une Pietà est sculptée en très haut relief. La Vierge, massive et rigide, a la tête couverte d'un voile à chute verticale. Son corps n'est que sommairement indiqué par des plis de draperie obliques, limités à l'épannelage parallèlépipédique de la base du sujet. Le Christ, étendu, nu et de très petite taille, laisse pendre la tête à la droite de la Vierge. Les jambes ne pendent pas verticalement à la gauche mais sont repliées sur le côté. La base du sujet part d'un cul-de-lampe godronné. Au-dessus, en creux, se trouve l'inscription IHS ; au-dessous, la date 1640. A la croisée des bras, Christ en croix en relief moins saillant que la Pietà.
English translation
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History
Patty cross in stone, on plinth. On the south face, at the crossing of the arms, a Pietà is sculpted in very high relief. The Virgin, massive and rigid, has her head covered with a veil with vertical fall. Her body is merely summarily indicated by oblique drapery folds, limited to the rectangular block of the base of the subject. Christ, recumbent, naked and very small in size, lets his head hang to the right of the Virgin. The legs do not hang vertically to the left but are folded at the side. The base of the subject rises from a fluted corbel. Above, in relief, is found the inscription IHS; below, the date 1640. At the crossing of the arms, Christ on cross in relief less prominent than the Pietà.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.