Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Manoir des Berthaisières
Cravant-les-Côteaux, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- La porte (cad. F 13) : inscription par arrêté du 6 mars 1947
- Protection dates
- 1947/03/06 : inscrit MH
- Type
- manoir
- Main period of construction
- 2e moitié 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Cravant-les-Côteaux
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.15615, 0.35483
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097719
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
Porte en anse de panier, accompagnée d'une porterne en plein cintre surmontée d'un fronton triangulaire. Elle s'ouvre dans un mur couronné par un appareil de défense décorative (ligne de mâchicoulis et souches d'échauguettes). La façade nord du manoir, donnant sur cour, est accostée d'une tour polygonale d'escalier.
English translation
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History
Door in basket-handle arch, accompanied by a postern in round arch surmounted by a triangular pediment. It opens into a wall crowned by a decorative defensive apparatus (line of machicolations and stumps of guard turrets). The north façade of the manor, facing the courtyard, is accompanied by a polygonal stair tower.
Nearby in the register
- Église du cimetière (église Saint-Léger du Vieux-Bourg)égliseunder 1 mi
- Cimetière du Vieux-Bourgcimetièreunder 1 mi
- Château de Cravant, dit Le Vieux Châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Château du Pressoirchâteau1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.