Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de la Michelinière
Azay-sur-Cher, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- La porte d'entrée (cad.AL 19) : inscription par arrêté du 6 mars 1947
- Protection dates
- 1947/03/06 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Azay-sur-Cher
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.32751, 0.85050
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097552
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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
Ancien fief relevant d'Amboise. Le château se présente comme une construction rectangulaire dont la façade principale se développe entre deux tours cylindriques et s'ouvre par une porte accostée de pilastres à chapiteaux Renaissance. Ce corps principal est continué, au nord et au sud, par deux ailes de communs dont celle du sud a conservé son aspect primitif.
English translation
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History
Former fief dependent on Amboise. The castle is presented as a rectangular construction whose main facade develops between two cylindrical towers and opens by a door flanked by pilasters with Renaissance capitals. This main body is continued, to the north and south, by two wings of outbuildings of which the southern one has retained its primitive aspect.
Nearby in the register
- Ancien prieuré de Saint-Jean-du-Grayprieuréunder 1 mi
- Château de Leugnychâteau1 mi
- Église Sainte-Marie-Madeleineéglise2 mi
- Vestiges du châteauchâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.