Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix en pierre
Serverette, Lozère, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix en pierre, au carrefour de la route nationale et de la route de Saint-Denis : inscription par arrêté du 13 juillet 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/07/13 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix de chemin
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle, 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Serverette
- Département
- Lozère
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.70325, 3.38765
- Mérimée reference
- PA00103936
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 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 élevée sur un socle. Le croisillon est en granit noir ; le fût et le socle en granit de Serverette. Le fût est à huit faces. Base à moulure gothique. Les petites faces du croisillon portent de gros boutons aux extrémités, ornementation fréquente dans la haute montagne. La base du fût est reliée au socle par des tiges en fer formant consoles. Une moulure Renaissance couronne le fût. Le Christ est représenté en haut relief.
English translation
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History
Cross erected on a plinth. The crosspiece is in black granite; the shaft and the plinth in granite of Serverette. The shaft is eight-sided. Base with Gothic moulding. The small faces of the crosspiece bear large buttons at the extremities, ornamentation frequent in the high mountains. The base of the shaft is connected to the plinth by iron rods forming consoles. A Renaissance moulding crowns the shaft. The Christ is represented in high relief.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.