Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Tour d'Escoute
Penne-d'Agenais, Lot-et-Garonne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Les façades et les toitures (cad. A 96) : inscription par arrêté du 10 janvier 1964
- Protection dates
- 1964/01/10 : inscrit MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Penne-d'Agenais
- Département
- Lot-et-Garonne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.39930, 0.83255
- Mérimée reference
- PA00084204
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 1628 map "Potamographie de Garone et des Fleuves qui Rendent Dedans." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Grosse tour carrée terminée par un chemin de ronde reposant sur des corbeaux. Le donjon est accosté de bâtiments à un étage, dont la toiture est mansardée, qui ferment une cour intérieure.
English translation
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History
Large square tower terminated by a parapet walk resting on corbels. The keep is accompanied by single-storey buildings, whose roof is mansarded, which close an inner courtyard.
Nearby in the register
- Château de Ferrassouchâteauunder 1 mi
- Porte de Ferracap et Porte de Ricardporte de villeunder 1 mi
- Porte de ville et la vieille maison contiguëporte de villeunder 1 mi
- Sanctuaire Notre-Dame de Peyragudeédifice religieux1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.