Croix d’accès aux Ecures

Fiche d’identité

Numéro d’inventaire : # 23

Commune : Crozant

Visibility : Cross visible from a public space

Presence of cupule : yes

Presence in the Napoleonic map : yes

Reference in the Napoleonic map : feuille 1865/15

Dimensions* :

  • height : 67 cm
  • length of arms : 42 cm
  • thickness : 17 cm

Dating ? Function ?

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

Characteristics

*

Cupule of 5 cm diameter and 4 cm deep.

* Characteristics recorded in 2013 by Noëlle BERTRAND and François TABOURDEAU

Learn more about the cupules

Restoration / Repairs

Date of restoration and/or repairs :

This cross is shown on the Napoleonic map at the crossroads with the Saint-Sébastien road (sheet 1865/15).
It was broken by the EDF when installing a pole in 1994, it was then reinstalled a few metres away.

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 in the hamlet of l'Age-Quatre-Maux at the crossroads of a path leading to Les Ecures

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Walks and Cycle rides

The walks

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 !

Cycle rides

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.

Alternatively, go to the "Cyclo des croix de Crozant" tour.