Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Tour de l'Horloge
Saint-Jean-d'Angély, Charente-Maritime, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Tour de l'Horloge : classement par arrêté du 25 avril 1892
- Protection dates
- 1892/04/25 : classé MH
- Type
- maison consulaire
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle, 15e siècle, 18e siècle
- Dates
- 1275
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Jean-d'Angély
- Département
- Charente-Maritime
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.94343, -0.52035
- Mérimée reference
- PA00105187
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 1621 map "Carte du Pais d'Aunis Ville et Gouvernement de la Rochelle." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Seul reste de l'Echevinage, écroulé en 1765, dont elle renfermait les archives. La cloche servait à la convocation des membres. Séparée du corps principal, elle était à cheval sur la rue, marque distinctive de l'existence de la commune qui avait seule le privilège de ce genre de construction. L'édifice, commencé en 1275-1276, fut achevé en 1277. Il porte encore les armoiries de la ville, mais mutilées.
English translation
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History
Only remaining part of the Échevinage, which collapsed in 1765, which contained its archives. The bell served for the convocation of members. Separated from the main body, it straddled the street, a distinctive mark of the existence of the commune which alone had the privilege of this type of construction. The building, begun in 1275-1276, was completed in 1277. It still bears the arms of the city, but mutilated.
Nearby in the register
- Ancien hôtel de l'Echevinagemaison consulaireunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
- Fontaine du Pilorifontaineunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.