Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de Villepion
Terminiers, Eure-et-Loir, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façades et toitures ; douves (cad. ZK 28) : inscription par arrêté du 21 décembre 1984
- Protection dates
- 1984/12/21 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle, 16e siècle, 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Terminiers
- Département
- Eure-et-Loir
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.10760, 1.70789
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097220
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 LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1821 map "Etat-Major Paris 1:10,000 (c. 1821)" (IGN France — Géoportail).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le nom de Villepion remonterait à l'époque gallo-romaine (Villa Peditum, campement de l'infanterie). Sur une surface de plan carré cernée de douves, le château barre symétriquement l'axe principal sur lequel sont édifiés les ponts d'accès. Des quatre pavillons saillants aux angles, un seul subsiste, composé d'un grand corps central encadré de deux pavillons, avec deux autres plus petits en retour d'ailes qui enserrent les tourelles des escaliers.
English translation
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History
The name Villepion would go back to the Gallo-Roman period (Villa Peditum, infantry camp). On a surface of square plan surrounded by moats, the castle bars symmetrically the main axis on which the access bridges are built. Of the four protruding pavilions at the angles, only one remains, composed of a large central body flanked by two pavilions, with two others smaller in return wings which enclose the turrets of the staircases.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.