Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix de l'ancien cimetière
Beaulandais, Orne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix de l'ancien cimetière : inscription par arrêté du 7 novembre 1938
- Protection dates
- 1938/11/07 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix de cimetière
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Dates
- 1628
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- place de l'Eglise
- Commune
- Beaulandais
- Département
- Orne
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.54399, -0.54404
- Mérimée reference
- PA00110738
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1706 map "L'Evesche du Mans (northwest sheet)." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Croix de granit hexagonale sur socle ancien portant l'inscription suivante : "1628 PIERRE : CHARDON : LA TOVCHE : A DOVNE : LA PVT". Fût en trois morceaux. Bosses taillées dans le granit pour retenir le cercle de fer qui servait à buisser la croix à certains fêtes.
English translation
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History
Hexagonal granite cross on an old base bearing the following inscription: "1628 PIERRE : CHARDON : LA TOVCHE : A DOVNE : LA PVT". Shaft in three pieces. Knobs cut in the granite to hold the iron circle that was used to bind the cross at certain festivals.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.