Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Tour de Garnavie
Lourdes, Hautes-Pyrénées, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Tour de Gavarnie située au Sud du château : inscription par arrêté du 19 février 1946
- Protection dates
- 1946/02/19 : inscrit MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- rue du Garnanie
- Commune
- Lourdes
- Département
- Hautes-Pyrénées
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.09483, -0.04819
- Mérimée reference
- PA00095390
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailBibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1843 map "Carte de l'Etat-Major 1:40,000 (1820-1866)" (IGN France — Géoportail).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La tour est établie sur un rocher qui faisait face au château. Son plan paraît être un carré régulier. Elle se compose d'au moins trois étages dont le dernier est voûté en berceau. La face nord est percée d'une baie en arc brisé qui devait servir d'entrée au moyen d'une échelle.
English translation
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History
The tower is established on a rock that faced the castle. Its plan appears to be a regular square. It comprises at least three storeys, the last of which is vaulted with a barrel vault. The north face is pierced by an opening with a pointed arch which must have served as an entrance by means of a ladder.
Nearby in the register
- Château fortchâteau fortunder 1 mi
- Ancien four a chauxfour à chauxunder 1 mi
- Bergerie Sainte-Bernadettebergerie2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.