It stands in a public garden known as Jardin de Vésone, 50 meters west of the Vesunna Gallo-Roman Museum which holds the remains of the domus of Bouquets.

According to legend, Saint Front [fr] made the edifice's breach by driving out demons taking refuge in the tower with his staff.

[3] In 1833, the site, property of Count Wlgrin de Taillefer, was ceded at his death to the city of Périgueux.

[1] The construction of the Périgueux – Brive railway line, put into service in 1860, and the development of neighboring streets led to the destruction of the remains of the vast enclosure that protected the temple.

It had excavations carried out which confirmed the discoveries of the Count of Taillefer: A large block construction interrupting the circular wall on the opposite side from the breach, connected to a vast set of buildings to the West of the temple.

The Count of Taillefer supposed that this temple was dedicated to Isis, but the inscriptions preserved in the Museum of Art and Archeology of Périgord show that the temple was dedicated to the tutelary goddess of Vesunna: Tute[lae] A[u(gustae) VesunnaeAccording to Camille Jullian, "the cult of Tutela has a very Roman origin and it consists in worshipping under this name the unknown god who protects a people, a city, an individual, the deity under the supervision of whom one is placed ...

It may be related that A bas-relief found to the south-west of Château Barrière depicting a seated panther bears the inscription:[6] TVT///// A /////The architecture of the temple is a combination of two cultural influences: the Celtic fanum, with a cella surrounded by a low ambulatory or gallery, and the Roman temple model with a columned pronaos opening onto a cella.