Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Vestiges du château
Levroux, Indre, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château (vestiges) : inscription par arrêté du 14 mars 1927
- Protection dates
- 1927/03/14 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle, 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Levroux
- Département
- Indre
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.98737, 1.61059
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097367
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1707 map "La Province de Berry. La Generalite de Bourges." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Les ruines du 15e siècle se composent de trois tours formant l'ancienne entrée du château. La façade ouest intérieure présente une jolie porte du 15e siècle, surmontée d'un cartouche du 16e siècle à écusson armorié double.
English translation
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History
The 15th century ruins consist of three towers forming the former entrance to the château. The interior west façade presents a fine 15th century door, surmounted by a 16th century cartouche with a double heraldic escutcheon.
Nearby in the register
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- Église Saint-Sylvainégliseunder 1 mi
- Statue « Le berger allongé » dite aussi « Le berger couché sur le ventre »monumentunder 1 mi
- monument aux morts de la guerre 1914-1918monument aux mortsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.