Cross of Vitrat

Fiche d’identité

Numéro d’inventaire : # 4

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...

The cross is badly damaged. It is seated on a baseplate (L : 110, W : 103, H : 66).

* Characteristics recorded in 2013 by Noëlle BERTRAND and François TABOURDEAU

Date of restoration and/or repairs :

This cross was restored in spring 2021.

Learn more about the repairs

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 in Vitrat in a lane on the right of the road leading down to Crozant.

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

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