Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Tour
Saint-Sauvant, Charente-Maritime, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Tour : classement par arrêté du 24 octobre 1914
- Protection dates
- 1914/10/24 : classé MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- Moyen Age
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Sauvant
- Département
- Charente-Maritime
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.73965, -0.50518
- Mérimée reference
- PA00105230
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
A l'entrée de l'église, deux grands contreforts semblent indiquer les traces de travaux de défense complétant ceux dont il reste un témoignage en dehors de l'église, avec cette tour crénelée.
English translation
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History
At the entrance of the church, two large buttresses seem to indicate traces of defensive work completing those for which there remains evidence outside the church, with this crenellated tower.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Sylvainégliseunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Cézaireégliseunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Briceéglise2 mi
- Four de potier dit " Varoqueaux "site archéologique2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.