Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Porte de Villars
Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne, Ain, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Porte de Villars : inscription par arrêté du 13 juillet 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/07/13 : inscrit MH
- Type
- porte de ville
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Address
- 12 rue Victor-Hugo
- Commune
- Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne
- Département
- Ain
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.11835, 4.95813
- Mérimée reference
- PA00116370
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 1632 map "Description du Pais de Bresse." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Porte appartenant à l'enceinte fortifiée de la ville, bâtie de 1273 à 1321. Les créneaux ont été fermés au 20e siècle. Autrefois, un pont-levis permettait l'accès du fossé. Au 18e siècle, le bâtiment est transformé en maison de maître.
English translation
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History
Gate belonging to the fortified enclosure of the town, built from 1273 to 1321. The crenellations were closed in the 20th century. Formerly, a drawbridge allowed access across the moat. In the 18th century, the building was converted into a master's house.
Nearby in the register
- Hallesmarché couvertunder 1 mi
- Égliseégliseunder 1 mi
- Château (ancien)châteauunder 1 mi
- Hospicehospiceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.