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Cimetière du Vieux-Bourg

Cravant-les-Côteaux, Indre-et-Loire, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
Protection
inscrit MH partiellement
Extent of protection
La parcelle AB 217 du cimetière, dite " cimetière des enfants " : inscription par arrêté du 2 mai 2011
Protection dates
2011/05/02 : inscrit MH
Type
cimetière
Main period of construction
1ère moitié 20e siècle
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Commune
Cravant-les-Côteaux
Département
Indre-et-Loire
Region
Centre-Val de Loire
Country
France
Coordinates
47.16643, 0.34922
Mérimée reference
PA37000029

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1842 map "36. Indre & Loire. Tours (Touraine)" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Le cimetière du Vieux-Bourg entourant l'église est toujours utilisé. Une vaste parcelle située au-devant du pignon occidental a conservé les tombes d'enfants inhumés essentiellement pendant la première moitié du 20ème siècle. Elles sont ornées, pour certaines d'entre elles, de dalles très simples, souvent peintes et/ou de croix en fer forgé. Plus au nord, le cimetière s'étend avec des monuments funéraires contemporains dont le volume a tendance à augmenter

English translation

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The cemetery of the Vieux-Bourg surrounding the church is still in use. A vast plot situated before the western gable has retained the graves of children buried essentially during the first half of the 20th century. These are decorated, for some of them, with very simple slabs, often painted and/or with wrought iron crosses. Further to the north, the cemetery extends with contemporary funerary monuments whose volume tends to increase.

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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