Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ruines du donjon d'Etableaux
Le Grand-Pressigny, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Donjon d'Etableaux (ruines) : inscription par arrêté du 9 avril 1952
- Protection dates
- 1952/04/09 : inscrit MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Le Grand-Pressigny
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.90946, 0.81298
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097769
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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
Châtellenie relevant du château de Sainte-Julitte. Jean de Meingre, dit Boucicaut, maréchal de France, en devint propriétaire au début du 14e siècle. Le donjon proprement dit était une tour rectangulaire flanquée d'une tour plus petite. Il appartenait au même type que les donjons de Langeais, Montbazon et Loches. De cette tour, dont les étages supérieurs ont disparu, subsiste le mur nord, une partie du mur ouest et l'arrachement du mur est. Au 13e siècle, le donjon fut renforcé par une enceinte dont la courtine nord existe encore, et qui était flanquée de tours rondes dont deux subsistent. Sous le donjon, le rocher est creusé de galeries qui communiquaient avec lui, et dont certaines sont reliées entre elles par des arcades appareillées au 13e siècle. A l'angle sud-ouest de la terrasse est conservé un pavillon carré.
English translation
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History
Castellany coming under the castle of Sainte-Julitte. Jean de Meingre, called Boucicaut, marshal of France, became its owner at the beginning of the 14th century. The keep proper was a rectangular tower flanked by a smaller tower. It belonged to the same type as the keeps of Langeais, Montbazon and Loches. Of this tower, of which the upper storeys have disappeared, there remains the north wall, part of the west wall and the trace of the east wall. In the 13th century, the keep was reinforced by a fortification wall of which the north curtain still exists, and which was flanked by round towers of which two remain. Under the keep, the rock is pierced with galleries which communicated with it, and some of which are connected to each other by arcades built up in the 13th century. At the south-west angle of the terrace is preserved a square pavilion.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Martin d'Etableauxégliseunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protaiségliseunder 1 mi
- Château du Grand Pressignychâteauunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.