Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Tour
Sainte-Livrade-sur-Lot, Lot-et-Garonne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Tour : inscription par arrêté du 16 juillet 1925
- Protection dates
- 1925/07/16 : inscrit MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Sainte-Livrade-sur-Lot
- Département
- Lot-et-Garonne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.39898, 0.59103
- Mérimée reference
- PA00084233
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — Géoportail
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1783 map "72 Castillonez, Velleneuve, La Reole." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La tour, dont la construction paraît remonter à la fin du 13e et au début du 14e siècle, est le seul vestige qui subsiste des anciennes fortifications de la ville. Cette tour établie sur plan carré est construite entièrement en briques. Aux angles et sur trois faces, des contreforts viennent la renforcer jusqu'à mi hauteur. Un escalier extérieur, en briques également, donne accès au premier étage. La couverture est en tuiles creuses.
English translation
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History
The tower, whose construction appears to date from the end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th century, is the only remaining vestige of the former fortifications of the town. This tower established on a square plan is constructed entirely in bricks. At the angles and on three faces, buttresses reinforce it to mid-height. An external staircase, also in bricks, gives access to the first floor. The covering is in curved tiles.
Nearby in the register
- Ancien prieuré des Bénédictins de Sainte-Livradeprieuréunder 1 mi
- Église Sainte-Livradeégliseunder 1 mi
- Camp du Moulin du Lotcamp de concentrationunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Orenséglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.