Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de Baschet (ou Bascher, ou Basché)
Assay, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- La fuye (cad. D 29) : inscription par arrêté du 25 octobre 1971
- Protection dates
- 1971/10/25 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle. 16e siècle, 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété d'une société privée
- Commune
- Assay
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.06236, 0.26940
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097532
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1592 map "Topographia Aug. Turon Ducatus et confinium Gallia Cestica ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Bascher était un hôtel-fort entouré de murailles et de douves que franchissait un pont-levis. Ces fortifications ont disparu et le château a été remanié. Chapelle des 12e et 16e siècles. Château du 18e siècle, doublé au 19e siècle d'une façade et de deux tours. La façade principale est ornée d'un fronton en tympan central mouluré, couronné d'un entablement. La fuye du 16e siècle est relativement bien conservée, avec ses 1400 boulins répartis sur quatre divisions, et son échelle tournante.
English translation
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History
Bascher was a fortified house surrounded by walls and moats crossed by a drawbridge. These fortifications have disappeared and the castle has been remodelled. Chapel of the 12th and 16th centuries. Castle of the 18th century, doubled in the 19th century by a façade and two towers. The main façade is decorated with a pediment in a moulded central tympanum, crowned by an entablature. The dovecote of the 16th century is relatively well preserved, with its 1400 nesting holes distributed over four divisions, and its rotating ladder.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.