Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Lanterne des morts
Pranzac, Charente, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Lanterne des Morts en pierre, du 12e siècle : classement par arrêté du 1er juillet 1905
- Protection dates
- 1905/07/01 : classé MH
- Type
- lanterne des morts
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Pranzac
- Département
- Charente
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.67009, 0.34817
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104461
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 1711 map "Le Gouvernement General De Guinne et Gascogne ...." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Colonne cylindrique reposant sur quatre gradins et terminée par un cône uni, surmonté d'une croix. Une porte s'ouvre au-dessus de la deuxième assise et donne accès à l'intérieur du fanal. Une petite corniche, faisant saillie au sommet du fût et ornée d'étoiles sculptées, sépare la colonne de son faîte percé de petites fenêtres.
English translation
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History
Cylindrical column resting on four steps and terminating in a plain cone, surmounted by a cross. A door opens above the second course and gives access to the interior of the lantern. A small cornice, projecting at the summit of the shaft and decorated with sculpted stars, separates the column from its crown pierced with small windows.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.