ClasséConvent · protected 1906Couvent des Augustins (ancien)Part of the building is protectedPhoto: Charlotte de Savoie · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Maison dite des trois pendus · Photo: Ce fichier est l’œuvre de Xavier Caré . Merci de créditer : Xavier Caré / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA . Si vous souhaitez une permission spéciale pour utiliser cette photo, ou la vendre en dehors des termes de la licence ci-dessous, merci de me contacter · CC BY-SA 4.020historic monuments
History of Crémieu · Monuments historiques
20 historic monuments, more per resident than almost any compared French town
Part of the town has been a protected historic area, a site patrimonial remarquable, since 1992. The Culture ministry lists 20 historic monuments in Crémieu: 6 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 14 inscrit (the second level). The oldest date from the 12th century. We have photos of 19 of them.
Monuments historiques
20
57 per 10,000 residents
median compared town 2.5
median compared town 2.5
Classé
6
the highest protection
Inscrit
14
the second level
Oldest part
12th c.
of any listed monument
Homes before 1919
26%
median compared town 7.4%
In pictures
Crémieu in 19 photos
Nearly every classé monument, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Halles (anciennes)Classé
Couvent des Augustins (ancien)Classé
Porte de Ville dite Porte de LyonClassé
Porte de Ville dite Porte Neuve ou Porte François IerClassé
ÉgliseClassé+14See all photosPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its license; names open the monument’s page.
Towns its size
Crémieu has the most monuments of 41 towns its size
Compared French towns of 3,500 to 3,600 residents, by historic monuments.
Crémieu20
#1 of 41for monuments per resident (57 per 10,000). Most per resident: Crémieu, Clamecy and Bergues.
The median town of these has 1. 14 of the 41 have none.
Map
Where Crémieu’s monuments stand
Every monument with a point on the ministry’s list; the larger, darker dots are classé.
ClasséInscritWithin 400 m of Halles (anciennes)
4 of 6classé monuments stand within 400 m of Halles (anciennes), with 15 of the town’s 20 monuments.
Tap a dot to open the monument’s page: its record, photo and the monuments around it.
20 monuments by protection
6 Classé14 Inscrit
Classé is the higher protection: any work on the building needs the State’s permission. Work on an inscrit building must be declared to the State in advance. Around both, building work in sight of the monument (usually within 500 m) needs the agreement of the architecte des Bâtiments de France.
Points as the ministry gives them: a monument spread over several plots has one point. 5 monuments have no point on the map.
Classé
6 classé monuments in Crémieu
Classé is France’s highest protection for a building, held by about a third of the monuments on the list. 2 of the 6 are protected in part only (a façade, a roof, a room). Each card opens the monument’s page.
ClasséMarket hall · protected 1906Halles (anciennes)Photo: Ce fichier est l’œuvre de Xavier Caré . Merci de créditer : Xavier Caré / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA . Si vous souhaitez une permission spéciale pour utiliser cette photo, ou la vendre en dehors des termes de la licence ci-dessous, merci de me contacter · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
ClasséTown gate · protected 1906Porte de Ville dite Porte de LyonPhoto: Charlotte de Savoie · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
ClasséTown gate · protected 1906Porte de Ville dite Porte Neuve ou Porte François IerPhoto: Daniel CULSAN · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
ClasséHouse · protected 1926Maison dite des trois pendusPart of the building is protectedPhoto: Ce fichier est l’œuvre de Xavier Caré . Merci de créditer : Xavier Caré / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA . Si vous souhaitez une permission spéciale pour utiliser cette photo, ou la vendre en dehors des termes de la licence ci-dessous, merci de me contacter · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
ClasséInscrit
14 inscrit monuments in Crémieu
Inscrit is the second level of protection: the building is worth keeping, and any work on it must be declared.
All 13, A to Z
Chapelle Saint-Antoine (ancienne)Château Delphinal (ancien)Couvent de la Visitation (ancien)Fontaine, rue Notre-Dame-de-ReclusHôtel de ville (ancien)maison de la PoypeMaison, 1 rue FaulchetMaison, 16 rue de la LoiMaison, 24 rue du Marché-VieuxMaison, 34 rue FrandinMaison, rue FaulchetPorte dite Porte des AugustinsTour de l'Horloge et tour carrée Saint-Hippolyte
7 more, named only by their kind
7 more are named in the list only by their kind: 5 houses (maisons) and 2 others, most from the 15th century. The 6 with an address are in the list above, by it.
13th c.1
14th c.1
15th c.2
16th c.1
18th c.1
undated1
What’s protected
Houses and homes are the largest group in Crémieu
Each monument under the main domain Mérimée gives it.
Houses & homes8
Religious buildings4
Military & fortified4
Public & civic1
Bridges & engineering1
Houses & homes: 8 of 20 monuments (40%). 4 are religious buildings, 2 of them classé.
Mérimée files each monument under one main domain: a château with its chapel counts once. 2 have no domain on the list.
How old
How old Crémieu’s monuments are
Each monument once, by the oldest part the list dates.
Prehistory & Antiquity to the 4th c.0
Middle Ages 5th–15th c.11
16th to 18th century Renaissance to Revolution6
19th century 1801–19000
20th century and later since 19010
11 of 17 dated monuments have parts from before 1500. The oldest dated: Château Delphinal (ancien) (12th & 13th c.). 3 monuments have no date on the list.
Protected area
Crémieu has had a protected historic area since 1992
Sites patrimoniaux remarquables on the Culture ministry’s list, with the plan in force.
| Area | Created as | Plan in force |
|---|---|---|
| SPR84-60 | ZPPAUP March 23, 1992 | AVAP (heritage area rules) May 14, 2019 |
A site patrimonial remarquable protects a whole area rather than one building: inside it, building work follows the area’s own plan and needs the agreement of the architecte des Bâtiments de France.
The list gives no boundaries, so the map can’t show the area.
When protected
4 of Crémieu’s monuments were protected in 1906
Monuments by the year they were first protected.
1900192019401960198020002020
First protected, in 1906: Couvent des Augustins (ancien), Halles (anciennes) and Porte de Ville dite Porte de Lyon. None has been added since 2011.
Age of homes
26% of homes in Crémieu were built before 1919
Main homes by when they were finished, beside the median compared French town (the tick).
26%
Before 1919
7.5%
1919–45
16%
1946–70
21%
1971–90
14%
1991–2005
15%
2006 on
CrémieuMedian compared French town
26% of its main homes were built before 1919; the median compared French town has 7.4%. More of them were finished before 1919 than in any other period (26%).
INSEE, census 2023: main homes (résidences principales) only; second homes and empty homes aren’t dated.
Born before 1900
3 people born in Crémieu before 1900
Their lives on one line.
Antoine Joseph Alricy
Jérôme Bellefin
Claude-Noël Thévenin
175017751800182518501875190019251950
AJ
Antoine Joseph Alricy1759–1839 · French politician
JB
Jérôme Bellefin1764–1835 · French explorer
CN
Claude-Noël Thévenin1800–1849 · French painter
Everyone born in Crémieu Birthplaces from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia.
Neighbors
Historic monuments in the towns around Crémieu
| Town | Residents | Monuments | Classé | Protected area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crémieu | 3,536 | 20 | 6 | Yes |
| Saint-Romain-de-Jalionas | 3,417 | 1 | 0 | — |
| Tignieu-Jameyzieu | 8,031 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Pont-de-Chéruy | 6,302 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Loyettes Ain | 3,554 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Chavanoz | 5,126 | 1 | 0 | — |
| Charvieu-Chavagneux | 10,547 | 0 | 0 | — |
In brief
Crémieu in brief
Few towns are as rich in historic monuments as Crémieu: per resident it has more than 99% of compared French towns. In all there are 20 historic monuments, 6 of them classé, including Maison dite des trois pendus. No town its size has more historic monuments: it leads the 41 nearest in population. Its housing is old: 26% of homes date from before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Part of it has been a site patrimonial remarquable since 1992. Most of its dated monuments come from the Middle Ages: 11 of 17. The oldest, Château Delphinal (ancien), dates from the 12th century.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Monuments historiques. France protects buildings at two levels. Classé, the higher (about a third of the list), means any work needs the State’s permission; inscrit means work must be declared to the State in advance. The Culture ministry’s Mérimée base lists every protected building, and this page counts them.
- Partly protected. Many entries protect part of a building only (its façades and roofs, a staircase, a painted room). Each counts as one monument, like a fully protected one.
- Where a monument is counted. In the commune named on its protection, moved to today’s commune where communes have since merged. A monument listed for several communes counts in each.
- Sites patrimoniaux remarquables. Since 2016 France’s protected historic areas (the former secteurs sauvegardés, ZPPAUP and AVAP) share one name. Inside one, building work follows the area’s plan and needs the agreement of the architecte des Bâtiments de France.
- What isn’t here. Protected objects (furniture, organs, paintings), old buildings with no protection, UNESCO World Heritage listings and labels such as “Plus Beaux Villages de France” aren’t on this list, so this page doesn’t count them.
- No History Grade yet. Everything on this page is described, not graded: France’s History Grade isn’t built yet.
Questions about the history of Crémieu
How many historic monuments are there in Crémieu?
The Culture ministry lists 20 historic monuments in Crémieu: 6 classé and 14 inscrit.
Which monuments in Crémieu are classé?
6, among them Couvent des Augustins (ancien), Halles (anciennes), Porte de Ville dite Porte de Lyon, Porte de Ville dite Porte Neuve ou Porte François Ier and Maison dite des trois pendus.
How old are the monuments of Crémieu?
The oldest parts of its listed monuments date from the 12th century.
Is Crémieu a protected historic area?
Yes: part of Crémieu has been a site patrimonial remarquable since 1992.
When were monuments in Crémieu first protected?
The first in 1906, the latest in 1997.
How old are the homes in Crémieu?
26% of its main homes were built before 1919 (median compared French town: 7.4%).
France has no History Grade yet: this page describes, it doesn’t grade.
Sources: Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée base on POP (immeubles protégés au titre des monuments historiques), October 2026 · Ministère de la Culture, sites patrimoniaux remarquables, October 2026 · INSEE, census 2023 (main homes by build period) · Wikidata and Wikipedia (people born here) · Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata (photos of the monuments, each with its own credit and license) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · Medians and percentiles: TownRatings, over compared French towns, updated November 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.