Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Porte de Soissons ou de Saint-Martin
Laon, Aisne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Porte de Soissons ou de Saint-Martin : classement par liste de 1875
- Protection dates
- 1875 : classé MH
- Type
- porte de ville
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- route de Soissons
- Commune
- Laon
- Département
- Aisne
- Region
- Hauts-de-France
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 49.56046, 3.61054
- Mérimée reference
- PA00115769
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 "43 Laon, Noyon." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Porte double composée d'un châtelet et d'une barbacane (tour Dame Eve, dite aussi tour penchée) , édifiée vers 1217-1236 par le bailli royal Soibert. Surmontée d'un corps de garde en 1562.
English translation
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History
Double gate composed of a gatehouse and a barbican (tour Dame Eve, also called the leaning tower), built around 1217-1236 by the royal bailiff Soibert. Surmounted by a guard-house in 1562.
Nearby in the register
- Tour Penchéeédifice fortifiéunder 1 mi
- Ancienne abbaye de Saint-Martinabbayeunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Martinégliseunder 1 mi
- Ancien hôpital généralhôpitalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.