Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Domaine des Quatre-Vents
Bourges, Cher, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Puits à manège, y compris le puits et l'auge en pierre et les éléments mécaniques subsistants (cad. 1967 AN 363) : inscription par arrêté du 11 mars 1987
- Protection dates
- 1987/03/11 : inscrit MH
- Type
- demeure
- Main period of construction
- 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- les Quatre-Vents
- Commune
- Bourges
- Département
- Cher
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.12155, 2.44646
- Mérimée reference
- PA00096662
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1695 map "Composite Map: La Generalite de Paris." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La ferme dut, à l'origine, dépendre des biens de l'archevêché de Bourges qui possédait le domaine de Turly. Au début du 19e siècle, le cadastre napoléonien montre que le domaine comporte d'importants bâtiments d'exploitation, un grand verger et un jardin. Sont conservés le manoir, une grange et le puits à manège du 18e siècle. Le puits se présente comme deux pavillons accolés, couverts chacun d'une charpente soutenue par des poteaux d'angle en bois, l'une couvre le manège, l'autre le puits. La machine qui permettait de puiser l'eau de façon continue, mue par la force du cheval, était constituée d'un chapelet muni de godets ou de pots de grès s'enroulant sur un tambour. De ce mécanisme subsistent le tambour, le puits et l'auge en pierre qui lui est accolée. Le palonnier auquel était attelé le cheval, système faisant tourner le tambour, les superstructures qui reliaient ce dernier au puits ont disparu.
English translation
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History
The farm must originally have been part of the property of the archbishopric of Bourges which owned the domain of Turly. At the beginning of the 19th century, the Napoleonic cadastral register shows that the domain comprised important farm buildings, a large orchard and a garden. The manor, a barn and the 18th-century horse-mill well are preserved. The well presents itself as two adjoining pavilions, each covered by a roof structure supported by wooden corner posts, one covers the horse-mill, the other the well. The machine which allowed water to be drawn continuously, powered by the horse's strength, consisted of a chain with buckets or pots of stoneware winding on a drum. Of this mechanism the drum, the well and the stone trough attached to it remain. The horse-pole to which the horse was harnessed, the system causing the drum to turn, the superstructures which connected the latter to the well have disappeared.
Nearby in the register
- Château de Turlychâteau1 mi
- Château de Chappechâteau2 mi
- Couvent des Soeurs du Très-Saint-Sacrement et de la Charitécouvent3 mi
- Fontaine de Fer, ou fontaine Saint-Firminfontaine3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.