Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Caserne Saint-Jacques
Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façades et toitures de l'ancienne caserne ; fortifications dites Front Saint-Jacques (cad. AS 598, 751, 694) : inscription par arrêté du 21 mars 1983
- Protection dates
- 1983/03/21 : inscrit MH
- Type
- caserne
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Dates
- 1686
- Architect or builder
- Vauban Sébastien Le Prestre de, marquis (ingénieur militaire)
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- rue de la Caserne-Saint-Jacques ; rue Louis-Bausil
- Commune
- Perpignan
- Département
- Pyrénées-Orientales
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 42.69891, 2.90132
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104065
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(23) Cataloniae." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
C'est à partir de 1679 que Vauban entreprit la transformation et le renforcement du "front Saint-Jacques", la portion des remparts au nord-est entourant la butte sur laquelle avait été bâtie, au milieu du 13e siècle, l'église Saint-Jacques. Il fut d'abord secondé dans cette entreprise par l'ingénieur Gabriel de La Mire. En 1681, Rousselot succéda à La Mire à la direction des fortifications du Roussillon. C'est lui qui, en 1685, reconnaissant l'insuffisance des casernes de Perpignan pour le logement des troupes, proposa la construction de la caserne Saint-Jacques, projet approuvé par Vauban. Selon un mémoire établi en 1718 par l'ingénieur militaire Joblot, la caserne Saint-Jacques était la plus grande de la place. Elle pouvait loger huit cents hommes et cent-soixante chevaux.
English translation
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History
It was from 1679 that Vauban undertook the transformation and reinforcement of the "Saint-Jacques front", the portion of the ramparts to the north-east surrounding the hillock on which had been built, in the middle of the 13th century, the church of Saint-Jacques. He was at first assisted in this undertaking by engineer Gabriel de La Mire. In 1681, Rousselot succeeded La Mire in the direction of the fortifications of Roussillon. It was he who, in 1685, recognising the insufficiency of the Perpignan barracks for the housing of troops, proposed the construction of the Saint-Jacques barracks, a project approved by Vauban. According to a memorandum established in 1718 by military engineer Joblot, the Saint-Jacques barracks was the largest in the place. It could house eight hundred men and one hundred and sixty horses.
Nearby in the register
- Ancien couvent des Minimescouventunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Jacqueségliseunder 1 mi
- Ancienne université de Perpignanuniversitéunder 1 mi
- Museummuséeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.