Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Tour
Chambles, Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Tour : inscription par arrêté du 16 décembre 1949
- Protection dates
- 1949/12/16 : inscrit MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Chambles
- Département
- Loire
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.44150, 4.24072
- Mérimée reference
- PA00117441
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 1637 map "The Province and citie of Lions. Lyonnois forest et Beaujolois" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Tour construite au XIème siècle. Dernière construction visible de ce qui devait appartenir au château-fort de la ville et avoir le rôle de donjon.
English translation
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History
Tower built in the 11th century. Last visible construction of what must have belonged to the fortress-château of the town and to have had the role of keep.
Nearby in the register
- Prieuré du Châtelet (ancien)prieuréunder 1 mi
- Égliseégliseunder 1 mi
- Collège des Oratoriens de Notre-Dame-des-Grâces (ancien)collège2 mi
- Château de Grangent (restes)château2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.