Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Pyramide de Génillé
Ferrière-sur-Beaulieu, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Pyramide de Génillé : inscription par arrêté du 26 novembre 1956
- Protection dates
- 1956/11/26 : inscrit MH
- Type
- monument
- Main period of construction
- 3e quart 18e siècle
- Dates
- 1770
- Ownership
- propriété de l'État
- Address
- R.N. 764 ; route forestière Georges-d'Amboise
- Commune
- Ferrière-sur-Beaulieu
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.15758, 1.05894
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097753
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 1750 map "Composite 9: Carte de France." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Cet édifice est le second construit sur quatre pour servir de repère et de rendez-vous de chasse en forêt de Loches. Sur un large socle carré, il se compose d'un piédestal dont la base et la corniche sont moulurées, et dont les faces du dé présentent un encadrement. La pyramide présente des arêtes moulurées et est amortie par une sphère soutenant une girouette.
English translation
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History
This building is the second built of four to serve as a landmark and meeting place for hunting in the forest of Loches. On a broad square base, it comprises a pedestal whose base and cornice are moulded, and whose faces of the die present a frame. The pyramid presents moulded edges and is finished by a sphere supporting a weathervane.
Nearby in the register
- Pyramide de Montaigumonumentunder 1 mi
- Église Notre-Dameéglise2 mi
- Pyramide de Saint-Quentinmonument2 mi
- Ancienne abbaye de la Bourdillièreabbaye2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.