Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Porte de ville, son pont et son fossé
Barran, Gers, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Porte de ville, son pont et son fossé : inscription par arrêté du 14 avril 1944
- Protection dates
- 1944/04/14 : inscrit MH
- Type
- porte de ville
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Barran
- Département
- Gers
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.61741, 0.44435
- Mérimée reference
- PA00094727
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesBibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)IGN France — Géoportail
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1770 map "74 Auch." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ancienne tour barlongue qui franchit la rue principale et livre passage par une baie en tiers point. Elle se compose de deux murs parallèles soutenant une voûte en berceau brisé. Au-dessus de cette voûte se trouve une petite salle où se tenaient les défenseurs, le corps de garde. A la partie haute, se devinent les traces d'anciens mâchicoulis. Les murs d'enceinte ont disparu mais le pont précédant la tour subsiste, enjambant ce qui était le fossé.
English translation
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History
Former oblong tower which crosses the main street and provides passage through a pointed arch opening. It is composed of two parallel walls supporting a broken barrel vault. Above this vault is found a small room where the defenders were stationed, the guardroom. At the upper part, traces of former machicolations are discernible. The enclosure walls have disappeared but the bridge preceding the tower remains, spanning what was the moat.
Nearby in the register
- Égliseégliseunder 1 mi
- Pigeonnier de Bonnefontpigeonnier2 mi
- Église de la Castagnèreéglise2 mi
- Châteauchâteau3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.