Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Tour romane
Puissalicon, Hérault, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Tour romane, dans le cimetière : classement par liste de 1862
- Protection dates
- 1862 : classé MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- 10e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- Dans le cimetière
- Commune
- Puissalicon
- Département
- Hérault
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.45628, 3.22372
- Mérimée reference
- PA00103678
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 — Géoportail
3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1778 map "57. Lodeve." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Tour rectangulaire à cinq étages, isolée à l'origine, puis accolée à l'église.
English translation
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History
Rectangular tower with five storeys, originally isolated, then attached to the church.
Nearby in the register
- Maison dite « des Évêques »maisonunder 1 mi
- Châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Laurentéglise1 mi
- Oppidumoppidum1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.