Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Tour
Puy-Malsignat, Creuse, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Tour : inscription par arrêté du 22 septembre 1937
- Protection dates
- 1937/09/22 : inscrit MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Puy-Malsignat
- Département
- Creuse
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.03896, 2.21814
- Mérimée reference
- PA00100138
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 1762 map "12 Evaux." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Dernier vestige d'un château médiéval, c'est une tour cylindrique surmontée à l'origine de mâchicoulis dont il ne reste que quelques traces. A l'intérieur, il n'existe plus aucun plancher. Seuls subsistent les ébrasements des fenêtres et des meurtrières avec leurs bancs de pierre.
English translation
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History
Last vestige of a medieval castle, it is a cylindrical tower originally surmounted by machicolations of which only a few traces remain. Inside, there are no longer any floors. Only the splays of the windows and the loopholes with their stone benches remain.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Thomas-de-Cantorbéryégliseunder 1 mi
- Château de Margeleixchâteauunder 1 mi
- Menhir dit La Pierre Femmemenhir1 mi
- Chapelle de la Croix-au-Bostchapelle3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.