Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Tour Saint-Fiacre
Cambrai, Nord, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Tour (cad. AS 528) : inscription par arrêté du 1er décembre 1997
- Protection dates
- 1997/12/01 : inscrit MH
- Type
- fortification d'agglomération
- Main period of construction
- 1ère moitié 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- boulevard de la Liberté
- Commune
- Cambrai
- Département
- Nord
- Region
- Hauts-de-France
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 50.17202, 3.22810
- Mérimée reference
- PA59000006
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDigital Commonwealth, Boston Public LibraryDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1665 map "Archiepiscopatvs Cameracensis" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Cette tour, construite après 1400 est de plan semi-circulaire légèrement outrepassé. Elle s'inscrivait dans l'enceinte de Cambrai dont le tracé datait du 11e siècle et qui avait été modernisée du 14e au 18e siècle, puis démantelée à la fin du 19e siècle.
English translation
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History
This tower, built after 1400, is of semi-circular plan slightly outrepassé. It was inscribed within the rampart of Cambrai whose layout dated from the 11th century and which had been modernized from the 14th to the 18th century, then dismantled at the end of the 19th century.
Nearby in the register
- Chapelle du refuge de l'abbaye de Vaucellesabbayeunder 1 mi
- Porte de Parisporte de villeunder 1 mi
- Maison espagnolemaisonunder 1 mi
- Ancien hôpital Saint-Julien, théâtre puis école de musiquehôpitalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.