Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancienne lanterne des morts
Angoulême, Charente, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Lanterne des morts (ancienne) : inscription par arrêté du 15 mai 1925
- Protection dates
- 1925/05/15 : inscrit MH
- Type
- lanterne des morts
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Address
- Dans l'ancien cimetière de l'église Saint André
- Commune
- Angoulême
- Département
- Charente
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.65010, 0.15524
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104220
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1777 map "69 Angouleme." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Partie supérieure d'une lanterne dont le corps sert aujourd'hui de cheminée à deux maisons contigües. L'emplacement occupé est situé dans le "petit cimetière" de l'église Saint-André, abandonné depuis longtemps.
English translation
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History
Upper part of a lantern whose body serves today as chimney to two adjoining houses. The location occupied is situated in the "small cemetery" of the church of Saint-André, abandoned for a long time.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Andréégliseunder 1 mi
- Maison de la Marbreriemaisonunder 1 mi
- Maison dite Maison Saint-Simonmaisonunder 1 mi
- Chocolateriechocolaterieunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.