Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Auditoire et prisons
Saint-Amour, Jura, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- L'auditoire et les prisons (cad. AK 411, 412) : inscription par arrêté du 8 janvier 1997
- Protection dates
- 1997/01/08 : inscrit MH
- Type
- tribunal, prison
- Main period of construction
- 2e quart 18e siècle
- Dates
- 1734, 1739
- Architect or builder
- QUERRET DU BOIS Jean (architecte)
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Amour
- Département
- Jura
- Region
- Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.43560, 5.34173
- Mérimée reference
- PA39000028
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 "La Franche Comte (southern sheet)." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Après l'installation d'une justice des gabelles en 1705 et en raison du mauvais état des prisons situées dans le château, un nouveau bâtiment est construit par Querret dans les années 1730-1734, puis repris de 1739 à 1741. Plan en grille ménageant deux cours ; salles d'audience à l'étage, prisons au rez-de-chaussée, cachots au sous-sol.
English translation
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History
After the installation of a gabelle court in 1705 and owing to the poor condition of the prisons situated in the château, a new building was constructed by Querret in the years 1730-1734, then taken up again from 1739 to 1741. Grid plan providing two courtyards; hearing rooms on the upper floor, prisons on the ground floor, dungeons in the basement.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.