Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Beffroi
Sommières, Gard, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Beffroi : inscription par arrêté du 27 mars 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/03/27 : inscrit MH
- Type
- beffroi
- Main period of construction
- Moyen Age
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Sommières
- Département
- Gard
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.78248, 4.08954
- Mérimée reference
- PA00103237
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
IGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public LibraryDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1603 map "Languedock." (Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Tour d'architecture gothique, surmontée d'un beffroi contenant une cloche en bronze datée de 1613. Beffroi de l'hôtel de ville.
English translation
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History
Tower of Gothic architecture, surmounted by a belfry containing a bronze bell dated 1613. Belfry of the town hall.
Nearby in the register
- Immeubleimmeubleunder 1 mi
- Château de Sommièreschâteauunder 1 mi
- Châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Pont romainpont1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.