Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Vestiges de la tour
Aucun, Hautes-Pyrénées, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Tour (vestiges) : inscription par arrêté du 19 novembre 1942
- Protection dates
- 1942/11/19 : inscrit MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Aucun
- Département
- Hautes-Pyrénées
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 42.97411, -0.19150
- Mérimée reference
- PA00095327
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
IGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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
Tour sur plan rectangulaire, construite en moellons avec chaînes d'angle en pierre appareillée. Couverture d'ardoise irrégulière du pays. Fenêtres basses à linteau monolithe, soutenu par deux portelets en pierre dont il reste peu d'exemples dans le pays.
English translation
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History
Tower on a rectangular plan, built in rubble stone with ashlar stone corner chains. Irregular slate roofing of the country. Low windows with monolithic lintels, supported by two stone corbels of which few examples remain in the country.
Nearby in the register
- Égliseégliseunder 1 mi
- Église d'Arrenséglise2 mi
- Chapelle de Pouey-Laünchapelle2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.