Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Calvaire
Biron, Charente-Maritime, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Calvaire devant l'église : inscription par arrêté du 22 août 1949
- Protection dates
- 1949/08/22 : inscrit MH
- Type
- calvaire monumental
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- devant l'église
- Commune
- Biron
- Département
- Charente-Maritime
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.56948, -0.47629
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104621
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 "Aquitaniae descriptio" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Colonne cylindrique cannelée, posée sur un socle et surmontée d'un chapiteau sculpté et d'une croix portant un Christ sculpté sur une face et la Vierge sur l'autre.
English translation
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History
Fluted cylindrical column, set on a base and surmounted by a sculptured capital and a cross bearing a Christ sculpted on one face and the Virgin on the other.
Nearby in the register
- Église Notre-Dameégliseunder 1 mi
- Calvairecalvaire monumental1 mi
- Église Saint-Pierreéglise2 mi
- Église Notre-Dameéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.