Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancienne enceinte
Aubigny-sur-Nère, Cher, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Tour (cad. AW 155, 160) : inscription par arrêté du 19 février 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/02/19 : inscrit MH
- Type
- enceinte
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- le Mail Guichard
- Commune
- Aubigny-sur-Nère
- Département
- Cher
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.49073, 2.43926
- Mérimée reference
- PA00096635
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1713 map "Le Berri et Le Nivernois, La Beauce et La Sologne ...." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La tour est l'un des derniers vestiges de l'enceinte du 14e siècle. Celle-ci se composait d'une courtine flanquée de tours rondes et triangulaires. L'ouvrage est défendu par des archères. Un plancher à solives sépare les étages.
English translation
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History
The tower is one of the last remains of the 14th-century enclosure. This consisted of a curtain flanked by round and triangular towers. The structure is defended by arrow slits. A beam floor separates the storeys.
Nearby in the register
- Ancienne enceinte de la Villefortification d'agglomérationunder 1 mi
- Hôtelhôtelunder 1 mi
- Maison, dite de Saint-Jeanmaisonunder 1 mi
- Maison, dite du Baillimaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.