Croix d’accès à la Chapelle-Sainte-Foy

Fiche d’identité

Numéro d’inventaire : # 27

Commune : Crozant

Visibility : Cross visible from a public space

Presence of cupule : yes

Presence in the Napoleonic map : no

Dimensions* :

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

Summit cupule 7 cm in diameter and 3 cm deep.

* Characteristics recorded in 2013 by Noëlle BERTRAND and François TABOURDEAU

Date of restoration and/or repairs :

This cross was broken, abandoned in a corner, then reinstalled at the entrance to the village, this seemed to be the most suitable place.

The only part left of it was its head which lay in the ditch.

A foot was created for it.

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.

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

This cross is located at the entrance to la Chapelle-Sainte-Foy

Vous pourrez découvrir cette croix pendant la balade “Cyclo des croix de Crozant” disponible sur izi.TRAVEL.

Below, you can start to learn more about this cross.