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Cherves-Richemont, Charente, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
Protection
inscrit MH partiellement
Extent of protection
Le socle : inscription par arrêté du 9 juillet 1932
Protection dates
1932/07/09 : inscrit MH
Type
croix monumentale
Main period of construction
15e siècle
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Address
place de l'Eglise
Commune
Cherves-Richemont
Département
Charente
Region
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Country
France
Coordinates
45.74371, -0.35321
Mérimée reference
PA00104297

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1621 map "Carte du Pais d'Aunis Ville et Gouvernement de la Rochelle." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

La place, ancien cimetière, possède une croix dont seul le socle est ancien. C'est un cube aux angles abattus en cavet, entouré, vers la partie inférieure, par un boudin et reposant sur un socle surmonté d'un chanfrein. Trois de ses faces verticales, au-dessus du boudin, portent dans un rectangle des croix différentes et à branches presque égales. La quatrième avait reçu une plaque avec inscription détruite.

English translation

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The square, former cemetery, has a cross of which only the base is ancient. It is a cube with bevelled angles in cavetto, surrounded, towards the lower part, by a moulding and resting on a base surmounted by a chamfer. Three of its vertical faces, above the moulding, bear within a rectangle different crosses with almost equal branches. The fourth had received a plaque with destroyed inscription.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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