Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancien corps de garde, dit Chapelle du Corps de Garde
Saint-Germain-sur-Ay, Manche, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Corps de garde (ancien) , dit Chapelle du Corps de Garde (cad. B 526) : inscription par arrêté du 23 avril 1992
- Protection dates
- 1992/04/23 : inscrit MH
- Type
- corps de garde
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- le Jardin de la Loge
- Commune
- Saint-Germain-sur-Ay
- Département
- Manche
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 49.23178, -1.60872
- Mérimée reference
- PA00110665
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 1758 map "126 Coutances." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ce corps de garde constitue un témoignage de la défense des côtes du Cotentin sous l'Ancien Régime.
English translation
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History
This guardhouse constitutes evidence of the defence of the Cotentin coast under the Old Regime.