Croix d’accès à la Grange du Bois dite Croix Blanche

Fiche d’identité

Numéro d’inventaire : # 26

Commune : Crozant

Visibility : Cross visible from a public space

Presence of cupule : yes

Presence in the Napoleonic map : yes

Reference in the Napoleonic map : 1865/15

Dimensions* :

  • height : 70 cm
  • length of arms : 54 cm
  • thickness : / cm

Dating ? Function ?

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

Characteristics

*

Length of the head: 28 cm.
Cupule of 4 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 :

The Napoleonic map shows a cross on a pedestal (1865/15).

During work to bury telephone lines this cross was damaged and the two sculpted stones that accompanied it disappeared.

Reinstalled, but because its head is so little pattée, it could be excluded from the Crozant type, but it could be a question of "rectifications" following its damage.

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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 in the wood behind the place called La Grange du Bois.

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