Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix de l'ancien cimetière
Champsecret, Orne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Croix de l'ancien cimetière, adossée au chevet de l'église : inscription par arrêté du 7 novembre 1938
- Protection dates
- 1938/11/07 : inscrit MH
- Type
- croix de cimetière
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Champsecret
- Département
- Orne
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.60907, -0.55082
- Mérimée reference
- PA00110769
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 en granit hexagonale. Christ sculpté au sommet. Sur la hampe se voient les bosses qui étaient destinées à retenir le cercle de fer dans lequel, à certaines fêtes, se mettaient des branches de buis.
English translation
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History
Cross in hexagonal granite. Christ sculpted at the summit. On the shaft are seen the bosses which were intended to hold the iron ring in which, at certain festivals, branches of box were placed.
Nearby in the register
- Égliseégliseunder 1 mi
- Vieux manoirmanoirunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.