Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Tour dite de Balayard
Fleury, Aude, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façade et toiture (cad. AH 322) : inscription par arrêté du 23 décembre 1981
- Protection dates
- 1981/12/23 : inscrit MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Fleury
- Département
- Aude
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.22949, 3.13538
- Mérimée reference
- PA00102690
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 Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1764 map "Carte du canal de Languedoc depuis le port de cette jusqu'a l'etang de Marceillette." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Tour ronde de construction assez grossière, aux murs épais, de datation difficile (sans doute 15e siècle), représentant le dernier vestige de l'enceinte dont il est difficile de retrouver le tracé.
English translation
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History
Round tower of fairly crude construction, with thick walls, of difficult dating (probably 15th century), representing the last vestige of the enclosure whose layout is difficult to trace.
Nearby in the register
- Ancienne chapelle des Pénitentschapelleunder 1 mi
- inscription gallo-romaineDénomination non renseignée2 mi
- Villa gallo-romainesite archéologique3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.