Croix d’accès à la Baronnière

Fiche d’identité

Numéro d’inventaire : # 11

Commune : Crozant

Visibility : Cross visible from a public space

Presence of cupule : yes

Presence in the Napoleonic map : no

Dimensions* :

  • height : 62 cm
  • length of arms : 55 cm
  • thickness : 15 cm

Dating ? Function ?

To find out more, let's dig into the depths of the territory's history...

Characteristics

*

Cupule 6 cm in diameter and 2 cm deep.

* Characteristics recorded in 2013 by Noëlle BERTRAND and François TABOURDEAU

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Restoration / Repairs

Date of restoration and/or repairs :

This cross is mentioned as lying on the ground in the 2001 survey by the Territorial Services of Architecture and Heritage. It was moved a few dozen metres due to the sale of communal land.
Although it is not mentioned in the Napoleonic map (1865/2), its location corresponded to the access to the hamlet from the road "La Chapelle-Baloue - Le Châtelier".

Learn more about the repairs

How it was made

Granite is ubiquitous here, it is everywhere in the fields

Each of the inventoried crosses was made by a different stonemason.

Cependant, il semble qu’ils aient utilisé the same model ou “patron”.

Each carver made his sculpture from some local granite stone known as a fieldstone.

Find out more with l’expertise de Didier Fauguet, stone sculptor and carver.

Location

Les croix de type Crozant sont implantées entre Oïl and Oc sur le territoire du “croissant marchois”.

This cross is located at La Baronnière.

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Walks and Cycle rides

The walks

Vous pourrez découvrir cette croix au cours d’une balade à pied de 8 km walk north of Crozant.

Go for a walk !

Vous pourrez découvrir cette croix au cours d’une balade à pied de 12,6 km au départ de l’Age-Quatre-Maux.

Go on the blue hyacinths walk !