Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix de cimetière
La Digne-d'Aval, Aude, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix de cimetière : classement par arrêté du 19 avril 1913
- Protection dates
- 1913/04/19 : classé MH
- Type
- croix de cimetière
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- La Digne-d'Aval
- Département
- Aude
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.04742, 2.17978
- Mérimée reference
- PA00102672
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid 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
Base en maçonnerie. Fût octogonal. Chapiteau orné de quatre statuettes (saint Jean, saint Laurent, un évêque, un évangéliste). Sur une face, le Christ en croix entre la Vierge et saint Jean ; quatre anges. Sur l'autre face, Vierge à l'Enfant couronnés par un ange ; deux saints et deux anges.
English translation
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History
Base in masonry. Octagonal shaft. Capital decorated with four statuettes (Saint John, Saint Lawrence, a bishop, an evangelist). On one face, Christ on the Cross between the Virgin and Saint John; four angels. On the other face, Virgin and Child crowned by an angel; two saints and two angels.
Nearby in the register
- Croixcroix monumentaleunder 1 mi
- Ancienne église Sainte-Colombeéglise1 mi
- Croixcroix de chemin1 mi
- Hôtel de Brassehôtel2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.