Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Tour de l'Horloge
Aubusson, Creuse, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Tour de l'Horloge : inscription par arrêté du 15 juin 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/06/15 : inscrit MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Aubusson
- Département
- Creuse
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.95736, 2.16860
- Mérimée reference
- PA00099998
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1763 map "13 Aubusson." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Tour ronde couverte d'un toit dominant la ville, vestige des anciennes fortifications de la ville. Restaurée en 1666, 1786 et 1890.
English translation
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History
Round tower covered with a roof dominating the town, vestige of the former fortifications of the town. Restored in 1666, 1786 and 1890.
Nearby in the register
- Fontainefontaineunder 1 mi
- Pont sur la Terradepontunder 1 mi
- Maison dite des Vallenetmaisonunder 1 mi
- Maison Corneille ou du Vieux Tapissier, actuellement Musée des Arts et Traditions populairesmaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.