Croix d’accès aux Coublins

Fiche d’identité

Numéro d’inventaire : # 28

Commune : Crozant

Visibility : Cross visible from a public space

Presence of cupule : no

Presence in the Napoleonic map : no

Dimensions* :

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* Characteristics recorded in 2013 by Noëlle BERTRAND and François TABOURDEAU

Date of restoration and/or repairs :

This cross was restored and replaced by the ERICA association in 1998.

It was lying in two pieces on a nearby wall.

ERICA repaired it and replaced it using information from the inhabitants of the neighbouring house.

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 close to the church of Saint-Etienne in the hamlet of Coublins.

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.