Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Porte d'enceinte
Montaut-les-Créneaux, Gers, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Porte d'enceinte : inscription par arrêté du 29 mai 1947
- Protection dates
- 1947/05/29 : inscrit MH
- Type
- porte de ville
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle, 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Montaut-les-Créneaux
- Département
- Gers
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.69411, 0.65732
- Mérimée reference
- PA00094872
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
Porte des anciennes fortifications, constituée par une tour carrée. Une porte en arc brisé perce la base et conserve les traces de la grille qui la fermait. Deux étages surmontent le passage, occupé chacun d'une salle carrée.
English translation
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History
Door of the old fortifications, consisting of a square tower. A pointed arch door pierces the base and retains traces of the grille that closed it. Two storeys surmount the passage, each occupied by a square room.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Michelégliseunder 1 mi
- Ferme fortifiée de Peypocferme2 mi
- Château de Saint-Cricqchâteau3 mi
- Égliseéglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.