Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Tour de l'Ansouhaite
Moulon, Gironde, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Tour de l'Ansouhaite (cad. AV 313) : inscription par arrêté du 1er mars 1966
- Protection dates
- 1966/03/01 : inscrit MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle
- Dates
- 1313
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Moulon
- Département
- Gironde
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.84192, -0.22756
- Mérimée reference
- PA00083646
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1693 map "Governo Generale della Guienna" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Tour édifiée vers 1313 par Raymond de Grésignac. C'est une haute tour rectangulaire avec mâchicoulis, à trois étages. Fenêtre trilobée ; meurtrières à embrasures très évasées.
English translation
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History
Tower built around 1313 by Raymond de Grésignac. It is a tall rectangular tower with machicolations, with three storeys. Trilobate window; murder holes with very splayed embrasures.
Nearby in the register
- Châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Croix du 18e sièclecroix monumentale1 mi
- Château de Franquinottechâteau1 mi
- Château de Mouchacchâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.