Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Restes de la tour de Saint-Alvere
Sainte-Alvère, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Tour de Saint-Alvere (restes) : inscription par arrêté du 22 août 1949
- Protection dates
- 1949/08/22 : inscrit MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Sainte-Alvère
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.94658, 0.80908
- Mérimée reference
- PA00082791
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Aquitaniae descriptio" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le château du 13e siècle fut complètement restauré en 1780. Il était alors clos d'une double enceinte, de courtines et de deux tours. Le château fut rasé douze ans après par Lakanal. De l'édifice du 13e siècle subsiste une tour ronde sur trois faces et volontairement éventrée.
English translation
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History
The castle of the 13th century was completely restored in 1780. It was then enclosed by a double circuit of walls, curtains and two towers. The castle was razed twelve years later by Lakanal. Of the building of the 13th century there remains a round tower on three faces and deliberately gutted.
Nearby in the register
- Croixcroix monumentaleunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Pierre-ès-Lienségliseunder 1 mi
- Château de La Pommeriechâteau2 mi
- Ruines du château de Longaschâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.