Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Maison (auberge de la Couronne)
Saint-Flour, Cantal, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façade, toiture et cheminée intérieure : inscription par arrêté du 14 octobre 1946
- Protection dates
- 1946/10/14 : inscrit MH
- Type
- maison
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Address
- 11 rue des Tuiles-Hauts
- Commune
- Saint-Flour
- Département
- Cantal
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.03258, 3.09171
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093630
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1780 map "54 Saint-Flour." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Immeuble du 15e siècle qui fut pendant longtemps l'Auberge de la Couronne. La tradition rapporte que Charles VII, arrivant à Saint-Flour en 1437, s'y arrêta pour se rafraîchir. En 1591, l'Auberge servit de quartier général à Philibert d'Apchier, gouverneur de Saint-Flour. L'édifice comprend des fenêtres à meneaux ; trois grandes portes à cintre surbaissé ; des caves à plusieurs travées de voûtes ogivales édifiées sur le rocher. Au premier étage, grande cheminée de pierre Renaissance portant un écusson sculpté en haut relief d'un cerf à la ramure fleurie.
English translation
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History
Building of the 15th century which was for a long time the Crown Inn. Tradition reports that Charles VII, arriving at Saint-Flour in 1437, stopped there to refresh himself. In 1591, the Inn served as general headquarters for Philibert d'Apchier, governor of Saint-Flour. The building comprises mullioned windows; three large doors with depressed arch; cellars with several bays of rib vaults built on the rock. On the first floor, large Renaissance stone chimney bearing a coat of arms sculpted in high relief of a stag with flowering antlers.
Nearby in the register
- Porte des Tuilesporte de villeunder 1 mi
- Fontainefontaineunder 1 mi
- Grand Séminaire, puis centre d'accueilséminaireunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.