Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Hôtel de ville
Alençon, Orne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façade : inscription par arrêté du 22 octobre 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/10/22 : inscrit MH
- Type
- hôtel de ville
- Main period of construction
- 18e siècle
- Architect or builder
- Delarue (architecte)
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Alençon
- Département
- Orne
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.43015, 0.08214
- Mérimée reference
- PA00110698
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 1714 map "Carte du Gouvernement d'Orleanois" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Hôtel de ville construit par l'architecte Delarue dans la seconde moitié du 18e siècle. Le campanile qui surmonte la façade contient trois cloches dont une, dite du "Tocsin", remonte au 15e siècle ; les deux autres datent de 1744.
English translation
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History
Town hall built by the architect Delarue in the second half of the 18th century. The bell turret which surmounts the façade contains three bells, one of which, called the "Tocsin", dates from the 15th century; the other two date from 1744.
Nearby in the register
- Ancien châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Halle au bléhalleunder 1 mi
- Bibliothèque municipale (ancienne chapelle des Jésuites)chapelleunder 1 mi
- Maison dite à l'Etalmaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.