Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Lanterne des Morts
Cognac-la-Forêt, Haute-Vienne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Lanterne des Morts : classement par arrêté du 10 mai 1939
- Protection dates
- 1939/05/10 : classé MH
- Type
- lanterne des morts
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Cognac-la-Forêt
- Département
- Haute-Vienne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.83405, 1.00578
- Mérimée reference
- PA00100285
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1703 map "Map of the Geography of Ancient France). (continued.)" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Lanterne de plan carré, mesurant 6,50m de haut, construite en granit. Son sommet se termine par une pyramide à quatre pans. La partie supérieure du prisme est à quatre baies plein cintre. Chacun des quatre angles verticaux du prisme est mouluré et cette mouluration se termine, à la partie supérieure, par un chapiteau sans ornement.
English translation
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History
Lantern of square plan, measuring 6.50m high, built in granite. Its summit ends with a four-sided pyramid. The upper part of the prism has four round arch openings. Each of the four vertical angles of the prism is moulded and this moulding terminates, at the upper part, in an undecorated capital.
Nearby in the register
- Château de Cognacchâteauunder 1 mi
- Croix du Petit-Vedeixcroix monumentale2 mi
- Dolmen et menhir dits de Chez Moutauddolmen2 mi
- Motte castralesite archéologique3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.