Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancienne abbaye de la Bourdillière
Genillé, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Les façades et les toitures : inscription par arrêté du 27 novembre 1951
- Protection dates
- 1951/11/27 : inscrit MH
- Type
- abbaye
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle, 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Genillé
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.18624, 1.08667
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097763
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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
La Bourdillière formait deux fiefs dont l'un relevait de Loches. En 1662, Louis de Menon en devint propriétaire et, veuf et entré dans les ordres, fonda un couvent de Filles de l'ordre de Cîteaux. Les premières religieuses appartenaient toutes à sa famille. D'abord prieuré, le monastère est érigé en abbaye en 1688. Il fut supprimé en 1770 par ordonnance de l'archevêque de Tours. Le logis seigneurial, devenu ensuite logis abbatial, est composé d'un bâtiment accompagné d'un pavillon, sur plan trapézoïdal, à l'angle nord-ouest duquel se dresse une tour cylindrique. Sur la façade sud fait saillie une tour polygonale, contenant la vis de pierre reliant les étages. Le château était entouré de douves. Des bâtiments monastiques construits au 17e siècle, subsiste un grand corps de logis qui était le bâtiment des religieuses.
English translation
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History
La Bourdillière formed two fiefs, one of which was held from Loches. In 1662, Louis de Menon became its owner and, widowed and having entered into orders, founded a convent of Daughters of the order of Cîteaux. The first nuns all belonged to his family. First a priory, the monastery was erected into an abbey in 1688. It was suppressed in 1770 by ordinance of the archbishop of Tours. The seigneurial dwelling, which later became the abbatial dwelling, is composed of a building accompanied by a pavilion, on a trapezoidal plan, at the north-west angle of which stands a cylindrical tower. On the south facade projects a polygonal tower, containing the stone spiral stair connecting the storeys. The castle was surrounded by moats. Of the monastic buildings constructed in the 17th century, there survives a large main dwelling which was the nuns' building.
Nearby in the register
- Église paroissiale Sainte-Eulalieégliseunder 1 mi
- Châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Pyramide de Génillémonument2 mi
- Pyramide de Montaigumonument3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.