Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Porte de Ville, dite Porte Saint-Pierre
Tonnay-Boutonne, Charente-Maritime, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Porte de Ville : inscription par arrêté du 19 septembre 1928
- Protection dates
- 1928/09/19 : inscrit MH
- Type
- porte de ville
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Tonnay-Boutonne
- Département
- Charente-Maritime
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.96823, -0.70732
- Mérimée reference
- PA00105286
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
Vestiges des fortifications médiévales. La porte s'ouvre entre deux tours rondes à mâchicoulis.
English translation
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History
Vestiges of medieval fortifications. The gate opens between two round towers with machicolations.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.