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Croix monumentale

Vernantois, Jura, France

The record

Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
La croix en totalité (cad. domaine public, non cadastré, à l'intersection de la rue du Calvaire et la voie communale n° 24) : inscription par arrêté du 2 août 2006
Protection dates
2006/08/02 : inscrit MH
Type
croix monumentale
Main period of construction
milieu 16e siècle
Dates
1550
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Address
rue du Calvaire
Commune
Vernantois
Département
Jura
Region
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Country
France
Coordinates
46.62640, 5.57657
Mérimée reference
PA39000072

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1695 map "La Franche Comte (southern sheet)." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Croix mesurant sept mètres de hauteur, dont le chapiteau est daté de 1550 sur des écus. Le socle porte un pupitre. Le second socle à ressaut et moulures prismatiques est encore de style gothique. Le chapiteau et la croix portent davantage la marque de la Renaissance.

English translation

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Cross measuring seven metres in height, whose capital is dated 1550 on escutcheons. The base bears a lectern. The second base with offset and prismatic mouldings is still in the gothic style. The capital and the cross bear more the mark of the Renaissance.

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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