Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Tour talutée dite à bossages
Clansayes, Drôme, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- La tour talutée d'entrée dite à bossages, en totalité (cad. AA 18) : inscription par arrêté du 15 février 2006
- Protection dates
- 2006/02/15 : inscrit MH
- Type
- fortification d'agglomération
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Clansayes
- Département
- Drôme
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.37176, 4.80822
- Mérimée reference
- PA26000018
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 1695 map "Les Estats de Savoye et de Piemont (southwest sheet)." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Seul vestige de l'enceinte médiévale qui clôturait la ville, cette tour quadrangulaire, à bossages, est sans doute postérieure au donjon.
English translation
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History
Sole vestige of the medieval enclosure that closed the town, this quadrangular tower with rustication is presumably later than the keep.
Nearby in the register
- Tour - donjondonjonunder 1 mi
- Égliseégliseunder 1 mi
- Château (ancien)site archéologique2 mi
- Chapelle du Val-des-Nymphes (ruines de la)chapelle2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.