Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix de carrefour
Sorbs, Hérault, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix de carrefour : inscription par arrêté du 6 juin 1933
- Protection dates
- 1933/06/06 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix de chemin
- Main period of construction
- 1er quart 18e siècle
- Dates
- 1717
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Sorbs
- Département
- Hérault
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.89262, 3.40515
- Mérimée reference
- PA00103731
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 1703 map "Parie Orientale Du Gouvernement General De Languedoc .." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Cette croix, dont le pourtour est orné d'un grenetis entre deux cordons de feuillages stylisés, présente sur l'avers un Christ et, sur le revers, l'Assomption de la Vierge. Au-dessus, deux anges tête en bas, tiennent une tiare au-dessus de la tête de la Vierge. Sur chaque bras, un ange encense la Vierge. Inscriptions sur les parties nues du revers.
English translation
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History
This cross, whose perimeter is adorned with a beaded pattern between two cords of stylised foliage, presents on the obverse a Christ and, on the reverse, the Assumption of the Virgin. Above, two angels head downward, hold a tiara above the head of the Virgin. On each arm, an angel censing the Virgin. Inscriptions on the bare parts of the reverse.
Nearby in the register
- Châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Croixcroix de chemin3 mi
- Ancien château (dit castellas) et demeure seigneurialechâteau3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.