Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ruines du château et vestiges de ses moyens de défense
Betz-le-Château, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château (ruines) et vestiges de ses moyens de défense : inscription par arrêté du 21 avril 1937
- Protection dates
- 1937/04/21 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Betz-le-Château
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.98915, 0.91580
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097586
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Restes importants d'une puissante forteresse. Du corps de logis principal, bâtiment à quatre étages, subsiste la partie Est, flanquée d'une tour cylindrique au sud-est, d'une tour polygonale contenant l'escalier au sud-ouest, et d'un avant-corps qui devait commander le pont-levis au nord. Sous la tour cylindrique se trouve une salle voûtée d'une coupole. Chapelle avec quelques vestiges de décoration picturale. Souterrains étroits avec moyens de défense, magasins d'approvisionnement et fontaine.
English translation
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History
Important remains of a powerful fortress. Of the main dwelling block, a four-storey building, the east part subsists, flanked by a cylindrical tower at the south-east, a polygonal tower containing the staircase at the south-west, and a projection which must have commanded the drawbridge to the north. Beneath the cylindrical tower is found a room vaulted with a dome. Chapel with some vestiges of painted decoration. Narrow underground passages with means of defence, supply stores and fountain.
Nearby in the register
- Polissoirpolissoir2 mi
- Église Saint-Mandé-Saint-Jeanéglise2 mi
- Deux bornesborne2 mi
- Camp préhistorique dit La Butte de Muratsite archéologique2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.