Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancien corps de garde de Carteret
Barneville-Carteret, Manche, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Les vestiges, à savoir : plate-forme d'artillerie, poste de guet et sa guérite, magasin à poudre et logement du gardien, vestiges du casernement (cad. AL 25) : inscription par arrêté du 24 novembre 1995
- Protection dates
- 1995/11/24 : inscrit MH
- Type
- corps de garde
- Main period of construction
- 18e siècle
- Dates
- 1745
- Ownership
- propriété du département
- Lieu-dit
- la Corniche
- Commune
- Barneville-Carteret
- Département
- Manche
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 49.37262, -1.80898
- Mérimée reference
- PA00135504
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public LibraryDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — Géoportail
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1702 map "A new and correct draught of the CHANNELL between ENGLAND and FRANCE" (Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ce corps de garde est un élément constitutif du réseau défensif qui assurait la protection de la presqu'île du Cotentin sous l'Ancien Régime ; la batterie a été édifiée au 18e siècle (1745) pour protéger l'entrée du havre de Carteret et le mouillage devant le cap.
English translation
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History
This guardhouse is a constituent element of the defensive network which ensured the protection of the Cotentin peninsula under the Ancien Régime; the battery was built in the 18th century (1745) to protect the entrance to Carteret harbour and the anchorage before the cape.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.