Cross at the access to la Chartrie

Identity card

Inventory number: # 39

Commune : Crozant

Visibility : Cross visible from a public space

Presence of cupule : unknown

Presence in the Napoleonic map : no

Dimensions* :

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

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Broken in 3 pieces, eroded from the head which does not allow the verification of a cupule.

It is shorter than the others

* Characteristics recorded in 2013 by Noëlle BERTRAND and François TABOURDEAU

Date of restoration and/or repairs :

A farmer remembers that it was snagged ("rabaillée", as they say in patois), in the 1970s, by a very long tree trunk whilst ploughing.

It was found at the crossroads of the Chartrie and Fresselines roads, in the bushes.

Granite is ubiquitous here, it is everywhere in the fields

Each of the inventoried crosses was made by a different stonemason.

However, it seems that they all used the same model or « pattern ».

Each carver made his sculpture from some local granite stone known as a fieldstone.

Find out more with the expertise of Didier Fauguet, stone sculptor and carver.

Crozant type crosses are located between Oïl and Oc on the territory of the "croissant marchois".

This cross is located on the D49 going towards Fresselines