Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Vieille tour de Pontacq et restes de remparts attenants
Pontacq, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Tour de Pontacq (vieille) et les restes de remparts attenants (cad. C 141, 146) : inscription par arrêté du 20 juillet 1945
- Protection dates
- 1945/07/20 : inscrit MH
- Type
- ensemble fortifié
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle, 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Pontacq
- Département
- Pyrénées-Atlantiques
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.18463, -0.11423
- Mérimée reference
- PA00084488
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1779 map "108 Pau, Bearn." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Couronnée de mâchicoulis à triple ressaut et percée de meurtrières, la tour se dresse face à l'église au-dessus des restes d'une enceinte de galets roulés, noyés dans le mortier. Elle peut être datée du 14e siècle. Le 16e siècle l'a dotée d'un dôme surmonté d'un campanile. Il s'agit en fait d'une porte qui s'ouvrait dans l'enceinte.
English translation
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History
Crowned with machicolations with triple step and pierced with arrow slits, the tower stands facing the church above the remains of an enclosure of rolled pebbles, embedded in mortar. It can be dated to the 14th century. The 16th century furnished it with a dome surmounted by a campanile. It is in fact a door that opened in the enclosure.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.