Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Vestiges de la tour
Sermur, Creuse, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Tour (vestiges) (cad. C 197) : classement par arrêté du 19 août 1975
- Protection dates
- 1975/08/19 : classé MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- Moyen Age
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Sermur
- Département
- Creuse
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.97675, 2.43140
- Mérimée reference
- PA00100201
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 1763 map "13 Aubusson." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Tour de guet qui s'incluait dans un système de défense et de surveillance rattaché à l'histoire de la Marche. L'étage inférieur ne comporte aucune ouverture. Le plan est approximativement carré, l'appareil formé de moellons rectangulaires. La tour repose sur un socle ou bahut raccordé au monument par un biseau. Les murs ont une épaisseur de 1, 50m à la base. Il ne semble pas qu'il y ait eu de voûte, du moins entre le rez-de-chaussée et le premier étage.
English translation
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History
Watchtower which was included in a system of defence and surveillance attached to the history of the Marche. The lower storey has no openings. The plan is approximately square, the masonry formed of rectangular rubble stone. The tower rests on a base or pedestal connected to the monument by a bevel. The walls are 1.50m thick at the base. It does not appear that there was a vault, at least between the ground floor and the first floor.
Nearby in the register
- Châteauchâteau1 mi
- Pigeonnier-chapelle de La Chazepigeonnier1 mi
- Domaine du château de La Combechâteau2 mi
- Église Saint-Martialéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.