Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Tour d'Echizadour
Saint-Méard, Haute-Vienne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Tour d'Echizadour : classement par arrêté du 16 mai 1955
- Protection dates
- 1955/05/16 : classé MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- 11e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Saint-Méard
- Département
- Haute-Vienne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.66262, 1.55436
- Mérimée reference
- PA00100481
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 1711 map "Le Gouvernement General De Guinne et Gascogne ...." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La tour devait faire partie d'une ceinture de défense des possessions féodales de la famille des vicomtes de Limoges. L'édifice de plan carré mesure 24m de hauteur. Elle est construite en moellons de granit par assises. Sur la façade ouest, on remarque une baie géminée dont la colonne ou le trumeau a disparu.
English translation
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History
The tower was to form part of a defensive belt of the feudal possessions of the family of the viscounts of Limoges. The building of square plan measures 24m in height. It is constructed in courses of granite rubble stone. On the west façade, there is a geminate opening whose column or trumeau has disappeared.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.