Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Tour de Trébaïx
Villesèque, Lot, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- La tour en totalité (cad. A 592) : inscription par arrêté du 22 janvier 2004
- Protection dates
- 2004/01/22 : inscrit MH
- Type
- commanderie
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle, 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Villesèque
- Département
- Lot
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.40739, 1.29504
- Mérimée reference
- PA46000034
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 1637 map "Aquitania" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Commanderie templière de la baylie du Quercy, dépendant de Lacapelle-Livron au début du 13e siècle, puis passée aux Hospitaliers. De la tour-salle originelle ne subsiste qu'une tour rectangulaire. Chapelle du 14e siècle en rez-de-chaussée avec clef de voûte au saint Jean-Baptiste, portes en arc brisé. Percements défensifs, latrines, oculus pour la chapelle. Le corps de logis, ruiné au 19e siècle, n'existe plus. La chapelle du 14e siècle est surmontée d'une chambre haute remaniée au 16e.
English translation
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History
Templar commandery of the bailiwick of Quercy, dependent on Lacapelle-Livron at the beginning of the 13th century, then passed to the Hospitallers. Of the original hall-tower only a rectangular tower remains. Chapel from the 14th century on the ground floor with keystones depicting Saint Jean-Baptiste, doors in pointed arch. Defensive openings, latrines, oculus for the chapel. The main dwelling, ruined in the 19th century, no longer exists. The chapel from the 14th century is surmounted by an upper room reworked in the 16th.
Nearby in the register
- Égliseéglise1 mi
- Égliseéglise1 mi
- Autel des Rogations ou oratoire ou reposoir de Sauzetoratoire3 mi
- Égliseéglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.