Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix en pierre
Mende, Lozère, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix en pierre, contre le mur de la maison Laurent : inscription par arrêté du 13 juillet 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/07/13 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix monumentale
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Dates
- 1534
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- place du Chastel
- Commune
- Mende
- Département
- Lozère
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.51975, 3.49729
- Mérimée reference
- PA00103861
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 "La partie Septentrionale du Languedoc" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Croix en calcaire, n'ayant qu'une face sculptée. Les extrémités des bras et du sommet de la croix sont terminées en pointe de diamant. La face sculptée présente, à l'intersection des bras, un quadrilobe qui sert de cadre au monogramme du Christ gravé en creux et en gothiques minuscules.
English translation
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History
Cross in limestone, having only one sculpted face. The ends of the arms and the top of the cross are finished in diamond point. The sculpted face presents, at the intersection of the arms, a quadrilobe which serves as frame for the monogram of Christ engraved in hollow and in small Gothic letters.
Nearby in the register
- Anciens rempartsenceinteunder 1 mi
- Croix en pierrecroix monumentaleunder 1 mi
- Ancien collège des Doctrinairescollègeunder 1 mi
- Immeuble dit ancienne synagoguesynagogueunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.