Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Fortifications
Aire-sur-la-Lys, Pas-de-Calais, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Fort Saint-François (appelé aussi fort Gassion) , ses vestiges visibles, ainsi que le sol abritant les vestiges des fortifications (cad. ZB 44, 45, 125, 127) : inscription par arrêté du 27 avril 1990
- Protection dates
- 1990/04/27 : inscrit MH
- Type
- ensemble fortifié
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 17e siècle
- Dates
- 1680
- Architect or builder
- Vauban Sébastien Le Prestre de, marquis (ingénieur militaire)
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Address
- 50 route d'Hazebrouck
- Commune
- Aire-sur-la-Lys
- Département
- Pas-de-Calais
- Region
- Hauts-de-France
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 50.64740, 2.41399
- Mérimée reference
- PA00108457
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1654 map "Ancient Kingdoms of Kent, Essex, and Sussex, England." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Sans fonction militaire depuis 1773. Démolies au 19e siècle.
English translation
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History
Without military function since 1773. Demolished in the 19th century.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.