THE CEMETERY CROSS
This cross comes from the first Mastraits necropolis located on the heights of the village
This Carolingian cross, which is about 3 m high and whose existence was already noted in the 14th century, was named "the cross of Lady Ysebael" in reference to the wife of the lord of Bry. It comes from the first necropolis of the Mastraits located on the heights of the village and was placed at the entrance of the old cemetery in the 18th century (around 1740). (around 1740). The sculpture that decorates the upper part (15th c.) of the cross represents on one side the Virgin and on the other the Crucifixion. It was registered in the supplementary inventory of historical monuments in 1908.
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