Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Propriété de la Tour de l'Ascanne
Saint-Ouen-Marchefroy, Eure-et-Loir, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façades et toitures du pigeonnier (cad. A 1393) : inscription par arrêté du 2 janvier 1976
- Protection dates
- 1976/01/02 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Dates
- 1553
- Ownership
- propriété d'une société privée
- Commune
- Saint-Ouen-Marchefroy
- Département
- Eure-et-Loir
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.86080, 1.52775
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097203
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1750 map "14. Prevoste et Vicomte de Paris." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
A l'origine, la propriété comprenait un château construit en 1553, le parc, les jardins, des communs, pressoirs, pigeonnier...La propriété se compose des anciens communs du château disposés en quadrilatère formant une vaste cour ; de la tourelle située au centre de la cour ; du pigeonnier cylindrique qui sert de hall d'entrée au bâtiment sud, auquel il est relié par une galerie.
English translation
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History
Originally, the property included a castle built in 1553, the park, the gardens, outbuildings, presses, dovecote... The property consists of the former outbuildings of the castle arranged in a quadrilateral forming a vast courtyard; of the turret located in the centre of the courtyard; of the cylindrical dovecote which serves as entrance hall to the southern building, to which it is connected by a gallery.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Ouenégliseunder 1 mi
- Domaine du château du Herceschâteau2 mi
- Menhir dit de la Ville-l'Evêquemenhir2 mi
- Église Saint-Martinéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.