Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Lanterne des morts
Brigueuil, Charente, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Lanterne des Morts du 12e siècle : inscription par arrêté du 9 juillet 1932
- Protection dates
- 1932/07/09 : inscrit MH
- Type
- lanterne des morts
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 12e siècle, 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- Dans le cimetière
- Commune
- Brigueuil
- Département
- Charente
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.95431, 0.86228
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104261
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IGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1711 map "Le Gouvernement General De Guinne et Gascogne ...." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
De forme cylindrique et creuse à l'intérieur, la lanterne se prolonge par une base de même forme, surmontée par un biseau qui reçoit un socle rectangulaire. Elle est percée d'une ouverture rectangulaire avec feuillure. Le couronnement, qui devait être ajouré, n'existe plus.
English translation
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History
Cylindrical in shape and hollow inside, the lantern is extended by a base of the same form, surmounted by a bevel which receives a rectangular socle. It is pierced with a rectangular opening with rebate. The crown, which should have been openwork, no longer exists.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Martialégliseunder 1 mi
- Mausoléemausolée2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.