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Croix aux instruments de la Passion

Arx, Landes, France

The record

Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
La croix en totalité, avec son socle et son emmarchement (non cadastré, domaine public, en bordure de la voie communale n° 3, près de l'église Saint-Martin) : inscription par arrêté du 10 janvier 2008
Protection dates
2008/01/10 : inscrit MH
Type
croix monumentale
Main period of construction
1er quart 19e siècle
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Commune
Arx
Département
Landes
Region
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Country
France
Coordinates
44.10840, 0.07542
Mérimée reference
PA40000068

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1776 map "Li Governi del Limosin, Quercy e Perigord" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Croix de mission du début du 19e siècle, ornée des symboles de la Passion du Christ. Cet objet constitue un témoignage historique et ethnologique de l'art et de la foi populaires, à une période où l'Eglise entreprit, au lendemain de la Révolution, une campagne de rechristianisation des populations.

English translation

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Mission cross from the early 19th century, decorated with symbols of the Passion of Christ. This object constitutes a historical and ethnological testimony to popular art and faith, at a period when the Church undertook, in the aftermath of the Revolution, a campaign to rechristianise the populations.

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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