Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Porte dite de La Tour
Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne, Corrèze, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Porte dite de La Tour : inscription par arrêté du 22 août 1949
- Protection dates
- 1949/08/22 : inscrit MH
- Type
- porte de ville
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 14e siècle
- Dates
- 1382
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Address
- boulevard Fachadour
- Commune
- Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne
- Département
- Corrèze
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.97926, 1.83965
- Mérimée reference
- PA00099682
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 1843 map "Carte de l'Etat-Major 1:40,000 (1820-1866)" (IGN France — Géoportail).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Tour carrée et trapue située sur l'enceinte des anciennes fortifications de la ville. Percée d'une porte, à plein cintre. A l'étage, une fenêtre avec mouluration du 15e siècle dont les croisillons manquent. Petite croisée en ogive au deuxième étage.
English translation
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History
Square and squat tower situated on the enclosure of the former fortifications of the town. Pierced with a doorway in round arch. On the storey, a window with moulding from the 15th century of which the mullions are missing. Small pointed opening on the second storey.
Nearby in the register
- Institution Sévignémaisonunder 1 mi
- Maison Rigalmaisonunder 1 mi
- Maison Calarymaisonunder 1 mi
- Maison Beyssacmaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.