Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Lanterne des Morts
Cellefrouin, Charente, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Lanterne des Morts : classement par arrêté du 12 juillet 1886
- Protection dates
- 1886/07/12 : classé MH
- Type
- lanterne des morts
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Cellefrouin
- Département
- Charente
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.88949, 0.39072
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104268
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 — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
Ouvrage composé d'un faisceau de huit colonnes, quatre grosses et quatre plus petites, posées sur un piédestal, lui-même sur une estrade de cinq marches. Quatre baies rectangulaires percées au sommet permettaient l'éclairage.
English translation
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History
Structure composed of a bundle of eight columns, four large and four smaller, set upon a pedestal, itself on a platform of five steps. Four rectangular openings pierced at the summit allowed for lighting.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.