Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Maison
Billy, Allier, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Echauguette et porte renaissance : inscription par arrêté du 9 décembre 1929
- Protection dates
- 1929/12/09 : inscrit MH
- Type
- maison
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Dates
- 1566
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Address
- Grande Rue
- Commune
- Billy
- Département
- Allier
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.23677, 3.42967
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093004
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1632 map "Carte du Pais de Bourbonois." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Maison conservant une porte dont le linteau Renaissance porte une inscription. A l'angle, subsite un cul-de-lampe d'une ancienne échauguette, avec cariatide portant sur banderolle la date 1566 et l'inscription : "L'homme de ses péchés est plus accablé / Que moi de ma tour je suis chargé".
English translation
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History
House retaining a door whose Renaissance lintel bears an inscription. At the corner, there remains a corbel of a former machicolated turret, with caryatid bearing on a banderol the date 1566 and the inscription: "Man is more burdened by his sins / Than I by my tower am loaded".
Nearby in the register
- Maison dite du Marchandmaisonunder 1 mi
- Ancienne porte de villeporte de villeunder 1 mi
- Châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Église Notre-Dameéglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.