Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Tour de Pocancy
Janville-sur-Juine, Essonne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- La tour : inscription par arrêté du 21 juillet 1947
- Protection dates
- 1947/07/21 : inscrit MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Janville-sur-Juine
- Département
- Essonne
- Region
- Île-de-France
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.51098, 2.27264
- Mérimée reference
- PA00087926
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 1695 map "Composite Map: La Generalite de Paris." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Cette tour, dominant le village, est une "fabrique" du 18e siècle, reliée historiquement au château de Mesnil-Voisin.
English translation
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History
This tower, dominating the village, is an 18th-century "folly", historically linked to the château de Mesnil-Voisin.
Nearby in the register
- Dolmen dit la Pierre-Levéedolmenunder 1 mi
- Pont de l'Etre sur la Juinepontunder 1 mi
- Moulin des Scellesmoulinunder 1 mi
- Château du Mesnil-Voisin (également sur communes de Janville-sur-Juine et Lardy)châteauunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.