Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Donjon de Vernode
Tocane-Saint-Apre, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Donjon de Vernode : classement par arrêté du 12 juillet 1886
- Protection dates
- 1886/07/12 : classé MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Tocane-Saint-Apre
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.23982, 0.45973
- Mérimée reference
- PA00083022
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1711 map "Le Gouvernement General De Guinne et Gascogne ...." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Tour à base carrée, couverte en coupole sur pendentif. L'accès semble être possible par une hunette au sommet de la coupole. Elle servait sans doute de silo ou de basse fosse.
English translation
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History
Tower with square base, covered with a dome on pendentives. Access appears to be possible through a lunette at the summit of the dome. It probably served as a silo or dungeon.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Méardéglise2 mi
- Domaine de Fayollechâteau2 mi
- Église Sainte-Madeleineéglise2 mi
- Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Visitationéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.