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The Saint-Jean de Montfrin preceptory (Gard) was founded in 1146 following a donation by the lord Pons de Meynes to the Order of the Temple; the Templars built a preceptory and a church there and settled in it from 1169. Some forty preceptors succeeded one another there until 1307, before the establishment, which comprised a farm, a chapel, a well, a bread oven, a prison, a cemetery, lands and mills, ceased its activities in 1312. Today there survive a residence organised around a courtyard, a chapel standing apart from the residential block, and a massive tower, recently restored, at the north-west corner.