Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Martin
Hontanx, Landes, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Clocher dit tour de Hontanx, dépendant de l'église. (cad. G 160) : inscription par arrêté du 27 juin 1962
- Protection dates
- 1962/06/27 : inscrit MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Hontanx
- Département
- Landes
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.82474, -0.27292
- Mérimée reference
- PA00083956
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 1786 map "106 Roquefort, Mont-de-Marsan." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Tour d'enceinte de la ville, construite en brique avec des hourds en bois reposant sur une partie en avancée percée d'ouvertures dont le haut est arrondi formant chemin de ronde. Trace de herse visible. Au-dessus de la voûte d'entrée, une pièce servait de prison. La route donnant accès à la ville passait par cette ouverture. Des fossés remplis d'eau entouraient l'enceinte de murailles.
English translation
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History
Town enclosure tower, built in brick with timber hoardings resting on a protruding part pierced with openings whose top is rounded forming a wall-walk. Trace of portcullis visible. Above the entrance vault, a room served as a prison. The road giving access to the town passed through this opening. Water-filled moats surrounded the enclosure of walls.
Nearby in the register
- Château et sa chapellechâteauunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.