Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Tour Balhan
Château-Thierry, Aisne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Tour Balhan : inscription par arrêté du 2 décembre 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/12/02 : inscrit MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- 2e moitié 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- 16 rue du Pont
- Commune
- Château-Thierry
- Département
- Aisne
- Region
- Hauts-de-France
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 49.04499, 3.40307
- Mérimée reference
- PA00115592
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1821 map "Etat-Major Paris 1:10,000 (c. 1821)" (IGN France — Géoportail).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Bâtie à la fin du 15e siècle, la tour Balhan servit longtemps de beffroi grâce à la cloche que Jehan de Balehan, maître du grenier à sel, y fit suspendre. Le monument dans la salle haute voûtée sur croisée d'ogives aurait servi de chapelle jusqu'à la fin du 17e siècle.
English translation
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History
Built at the end of the 15th century, the Balhan tower long served as a belfry thanks to the bell that Jehan de Balehan, master of the salt granary, had suspended there. The monument in the upper hall vaulted on rib vault would have served as a chapel until the end of the 17th century.
Nearby in the register
- Hôtel Dieuhôtel-Dieuunder 1 mi
- Ruines de l'ancien château et la butte sur laquelle elles sont situéeschâteauunder 1 mi
- Maison de Jean de la Fontainemaisonunder 1 mi
- Temple protestant dit église évangéliquetempleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.