Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de Fromentières
Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Ruines du château (cad. A 1239, 1240) : inscription par arrêté du 22 novembre 1949
- Protection dates
- 1949/11/22 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Address
- C.G.C. 118
- Commune
- Chinon
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.20617, 0.22917
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097662
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1637 map "The Dvkedome of Turone. Touraine. Tvronensis Ducatus" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Demeure seigneuriale construite sous Charles VII, formant fief relevant de Chinon. L'édifice comprenait deux ailes perpendiculaires, limitant la cour à l'ouest. Cette cour était limitée au nord par une aile dont il ne reste que le mur pignon. L'aile ouest est accompagnée, à son angle sud-ouest, d'une tour polygonale contenant la vis en pierre reliant les étages.
English translation
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History
Seigneurial dwelling built under Charles VII, forming a fief holding of Chinon. The building comprised two perpendicular wings, bounding the courtyard to the west. This courtyard was bounded to the north by a wing of which only the gable wall remains. The west wing is accompanied, at its south-west angle, by a polygonal tower containing the stone staircase connecting the floors.
Nearby in the register
- Château de Contebaultchâteauunder 1 mi
- Châteaux d'Uzage et de Bonaventurechâteau1 mi
- Ruines du château de Bonaventurechâteau1 mi
- Manoir de la Fuyemanoir2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.