Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancienne commanderie de Malte
Luzeret, Indre, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Commanderie de Malte (ancienne) : inscription par arrêté du 11 février 1929
- Protection dates
- 1929/02/11 : inscrit MH
- Type
- commanderie
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle, 16e siècle, 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Luzeret
- Département
- Indre
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.54249, 1.39118
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097386
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 bâtiments de l'ancienne commanderie conservent un portail avec trace de double pont-levis, décoré d'un bas-relief mutilé et une fenêtre encadrée de moulures avec culots de feuillage. Derrière, double portail avec herses et porte moulurée sur la cour. Les corps de logis sont ornés sur cour de fenêtres et de portes moulurées du 15e au 17e siècle, ainsi que les restes de quatre grosses tours découronnées.
English translation
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History
The buildings of the former commandery preserve a portal with traces of a double drawbridge, decorated with a mutilated bas-relief and a window framed with mouldings with foliage corbels. Behind, a double portal with portcullises and a moulded door on the courtyard. The main buildings are decorated on the courtyard with moulded windows and doors from the 15th to 17th century, as well as the remains of four large decapitated towers.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.