Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix en pierre
Pelouse, Lozère, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix en pierre, au Sud du village : inscription par arrêté du 13 juillet 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/07/13 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix monumentale
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Pelouse
- Département
- Lozère
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.56646, 3.61702
- Mérimée reference
- PA00103889
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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, de section octogone. Le centre du fût est occupé par un écu composé de trois besaces. Le pied est à conges gothiques. Le tout est porté sur une forte base. Cette croix peut être datée entre 1600-1620. Le croisillon paraît postérieur au reste.
English translation
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History
Cross in limestone, of octagonal section. The centre of the shaft is occupied by a shield composed of three besants. The base is in Gothic cyma moulding. The whole is supported on a heavy base. This cross can be dated between 1600-1620. The cross-arm appears to be later than the rest.
Nearby in the register
- Église Notre-Dame de la Rouvièreéglise2 mi
- Dolmen de la Rouvièredolmen3 mi
- Croix en pierrecroix monumentale3 mi
- Église Saint-Pierreéglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.