Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix couverte
Beaucaire, Gard, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix couverte : classement par arrêté du 10 octobre 1906
- Protection dates
- 1906/10/10 : classé MH
- Type
- croix monumentale
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Beaucaire
- Département
- Gard
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.80174, 4.63332
- Mérimée reference
- PA00102982
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 LibrariesLionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1603 map "Languedock." (Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'édicule se compose de trois faces élevées sur plan triangulaire, percées chacune d'une ouverture, enfermant un espace voûté au centre duquel s'élève une croix. Aux angles, des contreforts contrebuttent les voûtes. Une balustrade ajourée couronne l'édifice dont l'ensemble appartient à la fin du 14e sècle.
English translation
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History
The small structure is composed of three faces raised on a triangular plan, each pierced with an opening, enclosing a vaulted space in the centre of which rises a cross. At the corners, buttresses counteract the vaults. A pierced balustrade crowns the building, the whole of which belongs to the end of the 14th century.
Nearby in the register
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- Monument aux morts de la guerre de 1914-1918monument aux mortsunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.