Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Tour sarrazine ou tour aux bois du 12e siècle
Saint-Waast, Nord, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- La tour avec ses fossés (cad. A 319, 320) : inscription par arrêté du 6 mai 1992
- Protection dates
- 1992/05/06 : inscrit MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Waast
- Département
- Nord
- Region
- Hauts-de-France
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 50.31227, 3.74342
- Mérimée reference
- PA00107929
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 Libraries4TU.ResearchData, TU Delft
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1637 map "The Countie of Hannonia. Hanonia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La tour quadrangulaire fait partie des fortifications construites par les comtes de Hainaut au 12e siècle. Elle conserve son dispositif défensif et son fossé périphérique.
English translation
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History
The quadrangular tower is part of the fortifications built by the counts of Hainaut in the 12th century. It retains its defensive system and its peripheral ditch.
Nearby in the register
- Chapelle du cimetièrechapelle1 mi
- Ferme de Cambronferme2 mi
- Château de Rametzchâteau2 mi
- Ruines gallo-romainessite archéologique2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.