Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
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
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 1693 map "Governo Generale della Guienna" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
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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History
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
- Maison d'anglemaisonunder 1 mi
- Maison d'angle à tourellemaisonunder 1 mi
- Maison à pans de boismaisonunder 1 mi
- Maison d'angle à tourellemaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.