Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château
Saint-Florent-sur-Cher, Cher, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Pavillon d'entrée ; chapelle (cad. AL 166) : inscription par arrêté du 13 janvier 1936
- Protection dates
- 1936/01/13 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle, 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- place de la République
- Commune
- Saint-Florent-sur-Cher
- Département
- Cher
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.99347, 2.24411
- Mérimée reference
- PA00096884
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1665 map "Bitvricvm Dvcatvs Dvche De Berri" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La poterne d'entrée de l'ancien château est flanquée, à gauche, de la chapelle et, à droite, d'un escalier, ainsi que de la tour au sud-est de l'ancienne enceinte disparue. La porte d'entrée est en anse de panier. Deux tourelles en encorbellement habillent les angles du pavillon. Les parties hautes à partir de l'entablement datent du 19e siècle. La façade intérieure présente un décor en briques et pierre polychrome. Du côté gauche du pavillon se trouve la tourelle d'escalier, laquelle le relie à une tour plus ancienne qui a conservé ses meurtrières.
English translation
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History
The postern gate of the former castle is flanked, on the left, by the chapel and, on the right, by a staircase, as well as by the tower to the south-east of the former disappeared enclosure. The entrance door is a basket-handle arch. Two corbelled turrets dress the angles of the pavilion. The upper parts from the entablature date from the 19th century. The interior façade presents a polychrome brick and stone decoration. On the left side of the pavilion is the stair turret, which links it to an older tower which has retained its arrow slits.
Nearby in the register
- Dolmen dit La Table ou La Pierre de la Rochedolmen1 mi
- Ancienne usine métallurgique des Lavoirsusine métallurgique1 mi
- Église Notre-Dameéglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.