Cross of la Jaussée

Fiche d’identité

Numéro d’inventaire : # 33

Commune : La Chapelle-Baloue

Visibility : This cross is not accessible, it is on private property

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...

*

Length of the head: 39 cm.

Cupule of 4 cm in diameter and 2 cm deep.

This cross was probably moved during the construction of the railway line and is now in a private garden.

* Characteristics recorded in 2013 by Noëlle BERTRAND and François TABOURDEAU

Date of restoration and/or repairs :

This cross has not been restored or repaired.

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 on private property, it is not visible.