Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Tour du Greffe, dite aussi tour du Châtelet de la Porte-Saint-Eloi
Bordeaux, Gironde, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Site du 13e siècle de la tour du Greffe, y compris en sous-sol (cad. HD 414, lot no 10) : inscription par arrêté du 7 mars 1997
- Protection dates
- 1997/03/07 : inscrit MH
- Type
- site archéologique
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété d'une société privée
- Address
- 57 rue Saint-James
- Commune
- Bordeaux
- Département
- Gironde
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.83522, -0.57144
- Mérimée reference
- PA33000015
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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 1696 map "Bourdeaux" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Construite au 13e siècle, la tour faisait partie d'un ensemble de quatre tours qui formaient un châtelet en avant de la tour de la Grosse Cloche, devenu beffroi de la ville en 1246.
English translation
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History
Built in the 13th century, the tower was part of a set of four towers which formed a barbican in front of the tower of the Grosse Cloche, which became the city's belfry in 1246.
Nearby in the register
- Enceinte médiévalefortification d'agglomérationunder 1 mi
- Ancien Hôtel de villehôtel de villeunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Éloiégliseunder 1 mi
- Chapelle Saint-Jacqueschapelleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.