Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Porte fortifiée de Saint-Yors
Bazian, Gers, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façades et toitures (cad. C 165) : inscription par arrêté du 15 mars 1973
- Protection dates
- 1973/03/15 : inscrit MH
- Type
- porte de ville
- Main period of construction
- Moyen Age
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- Saint-Yors
- Commune
- Bazian
- Département
- Gers
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.65797, 0.31195
- Mérimée reference
- PA00094731
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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
Dernier vestige des fortifications du village, datant probablement de la fin du Moyen-Age. Il s'agit d'une porte d'un type commun dans la région pour la fermeture des anciens villages fortifés. Le passage est aménage au rez-de-chaussée d'une tour à l'étage de laquelle logeait le gardien qui pouvait, éventuellement, baisser la herse depuis sa chambre. La porte était bloquée au moyen de barres, en l'appuyant contre un arc d'ouverture moindre que la voûte du rez-de-chaussée. Un escalier extérieur menait à l'étage de la porte fortifiée en même temps qu'il donnait accès à la courtine aujourd'hui disparue.
English translation
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History
Last vestige of the fortifications of the village, probably dating from the end of the Middle Ages. It is a gate of a type common in the region for the closure of old fortified villages. The passage is arranged at ground floor level of a tower in the storey of which lodged the guardian who could, possibly, lower the portcullis from his room. The gate was blocked by means of bars, by leaning it against an opening arch smaller than the barrel vault of the ground floor. An external staircase led to the storey of the fortified gate at the same time as it gave access to the curtain wall today disappeared.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.