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Maison dite Tour du Temple

Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, Gironde, France

The record

Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Maison dite Tour du Temple (cad. AB 620) : inscription par arrêté du 7 avril 1967
Protection dates
1967/04/07 : inscrit MH
Type
maison
Main period of construction
13e siècle, 14e siècle
Ownership
propriété privée
Address
24 rue des Frères-Reclus
Lieu-dit
la Ville Nord
Commune
Sainte-Foy-la-Grande
Département
Gironde
Region
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Country
France
Coordinates
44.84189, 0.21569
Mérimée reference
PA00083818

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1693 map "Governo Generale della Guienna" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

La maison appartenait aux Templiers et a dû être construite entre 1280 et 1310. Edifice à plan barlong, sur trois étages au-dessus du rez-de-chaussée, formés chacun d'une seule pièce. Une tour carrée flanque la façade est. L'entrée à l'ouest se fait par deux portes ogivales. La tour était bâtie sur plan barlong.

English translation

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The house belonged to the Templars and must have been built between 1280 and 1310. Building with oblong plan, on three storeys above the ground floor, each formed of a single room. A square tower flanks the east façade. The entrance to the west is through two pointed-arch doors. The tower was built on oblong plan.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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