Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Pyramide de Saint-Quentin
Ferrière-sur-Beaulieu, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Pyramide de Saint-Quentin : inscription par arrêté du 3 novembre 1958
- Protection dates
- 1958/11/03 : inscrit MH
- Type
- monument
- Main period of construction
- 3e quart 18e siècle
- Dates
- 1770
- Ownership
- propriété de l'État
- Address
- R.D. 31 ; route forestière Georges-d'Amboise
- Commune
- Ferrière-sur-Beaulieu
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.17188, 1.02829
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097755
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 l'un des quatre construits pour servir de repère et de rendez-vous de chasse en forêt de Loches, sur le parcours de l'allée Traversine. Sur un socle carré mouluré, il comprend un piédestal dont chaque face présente un encorbellement, et sur lequel s'élance la pyramide amortie par une sphère.
English translation
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History
This building is one of four built to serve as a landmark and hunting rendezvous in the forest of Loches, on the course of the Traversine path. On a moulded square base, it comprises a pedestal of which each face presents a corbelling, and on which rises the pyramid finished off by a sphere.
Nearby in the register
- Pyramide de Génillémonument2 mi
- Vestiges du pont sur l'Indre du 15e sièclepont2 mi
- Château des Rocheschâteau2 mi
- Église Saint-Quentinéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.