Ensemble défensif de la pointe de Toulinguet

English translation

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History

The point of Toulinguet allows observation of the entire width of the passage as far as the point of Saint-Mathieu. A defensive work is attested there in the 12th century. Of the improvements made by Vauban in 1694, only a few vestiges remain at the foot of the lighthouse built in 1849. On the highest point of the point, a tower-reduit is built in 1812 on the standard model of 1811, no. 3, to accommodate twelve to eighteen men. Around 1884, it is cut off at the gorge by a defensive wall with masoned ditch passing through the tower and resting on the north and south escarpments of the peninsula, the whole constituting a rectilinear front that cuts across the point. Raised on three levels, the last being an artillery terrace equipped with a parapet and paved with granite, the tower contains vaulted rooms of brick on the ground floor and a single room vaulted with stone ribs in granite resting on a central pillar on the first floor. The only modification made to the work was the removal, around 1884, of the drawbridge commanding the original entrance on the second level, in favour of a ground-level entrance.