Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix de cimetière
Saint-Dizant-du-Bois, Charente-Maritime, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix de cimetière, pierre sculptée : classement par arrêté du 15 février 1913
- Protection dates
- 1913/02/15 : classé MH
- Type
- croix de cimetière
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Dizant-du-Bois
- Département
- Charente-Maritime
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.39787, -0.57364
- Mérimée reference
- PA00105168
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
Deux marches donnent accès à un petit calvaire dont le fût est orné, sur chacune de ses quatre faces, d'une coquille en limaçon. La base présente des feuilles de fougères à l'est et des entrelacs à l'ouest ; gerbe de fleurs épanouies au nord et croix en bosse au sud.
English translation
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History
Two steps give access to a small calvary whose shaft is adorned, on each of its four faces, with a snail-shell motif. The base presents fern leaves to the east and interlace to the west; sheaf of blooming flowers to the north and raised cross to the south.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Dizantégliseunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Martialéglise1 mi
- Église Saint-Pierreéglise2 mi
- Croixcroix de cimetière2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.