Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Croix de Cemboing
Cemboing, Haute-Saône, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- La croix en totalité (cad. A 521) : classement par arrêté du 7 mars 2006
- Protection dates
- 2006/03/07 : classé MH
- Type
- croix monumentale
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 16e siècle
- Dates
- 1577
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- rue de l'Assomption
- Commune
- Cemboing
- Département
- Haute-Saône
- Region
- Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.84200, 5.85531
- Mérimée reference
- PA70000013
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — Géoportailswisstopo — Federal Office of Topographyswisstopo — Federal Office of Topography
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1589 map "(37) Burgundiae." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La croix s'élève à une cinquantaine de mètres au nord de l'église. Construit en grès des Vosges, le monument comprend : un soubassement maçonné ; une base massive ; une colonne monolithe ornée d'une bague sculptée de guirlandes et d'un cordon torsadé, et couronnée d'un chapiteau campaniforme au-dessus du millésime 1577 ; une croix aux croisillons décorés de motifs végétaux portant un Christ.
English translation
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History
The cross stands at approximately fifty metres north of the church. Built in Vosges sandstone, the monument comprises: a masonry base; a massive foundation; a monolithic column ornated with a band sculpted with garlands and a twisted rope moulding, and crowned with a bell-shaped capital above the date 1577; a cross with cross-arms decorated with plant motifs bearing a Christ.
Nearby in the register
- Église de l'Assomptionégliseunder 1 mi
- Monument Mathelat du cimetièremonument funéraireunder 1 mi
- Fontaine "Marianne"fontaine2 mi
- Maison Cordiennemaison2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.