Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Tour Jacquemard
Romorantin-Lanthenay, Loir-et-Cher, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Tour Jacquemard : inscription par arrêté du 16 mars 1932
- Protection dates
- 1932/03/16 : inscrit MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- Moyen Age
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Romorantin-Lanthenay
- Département
- Loir-et-Cher
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.35774, 1.74339
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098559
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1760 map "29 Blois." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Cette tour commandait un ancien pont dont les piles sont visibles à très basses eaux, qui faisait communiquer la ville avec l'ile Marin. Elle est le dernier vestige de la première enceinte fortifiée, antérieure au 11e siècle.
English translation
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History
This tower commanded an old bridge whose piers are visible at very low water, which provided communication between the town and the Ile Marin. It is the last vestige of the first fortified enclosure, predating the 11th century.
Nearby in the register
- Sous-Préfecturesous-préfectureunder 1 mi
- Maison Louis XIIImaisonunder 1 mi
- Maison à pans de boismaisonunder 1 mi
- Église Notre-Dame, puis Saint-Etienne de Romorantinégliseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.