Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Tour de Jeanne d'Arc
Sancoins, Cher, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- La tourelle d'escalier avec porte du 16e siècle dite Tour de Jeanne d'Arc (cad. AM 39) : inscription par arrêté du 25 février 1928
- Protection dates
- 1928/02/25 : inscrit MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Address
- 54 rue Fernand Duruisseau
- Commune
- Sancoins
- Département
- Cher
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.83236, 2.91805
- Mérimée reference
- PA00096904
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 1632 map "Carte du Pais de Bourbonois." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Immeuble datant de la Renaissance dont il conserve la façade sur cour qui porte encore au rez-de-chaussée des baies à meneaux, traverses, jambages et appuis moulurés. Contre cette façade est adossée la tour dite Jeanne d'Arc qui renferme un escalier à emmarchement et noyau en pierre. Un escalier de cave débouche au-dessous d'un petit encorbellement orné d'un personnage sculpté. La porte s'ouvre entre deux des petits pilastres qui ornent les angles de la tour à la base. Autrefois, la tour devait s'élever au-dessus des toitures de l'hôtel mais elle a ensuite été dérasée et une toiture hexagonale remplace la primitive.
English translation
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History
Building dating from the Renaissance of which it retains the courtyard façade which still bears on the ground floor openings with mullions, transoms, jambs and moulded sills. Against this façade is set the tower called Jeanne d'Arc which contains a stair with steps and stone core. A cellar stair emerges below a small corbelling adorned with a sculpted figure. The door opens between two of the small pilasters which ornament the angles of the tower at the base. Formerly, the tower must have risen above the rooflines of the hotel but it was subsequently levelled and a hexagonal roof replaces the primitive one.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.