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Manoir de Fontenay

Lignières-de-Touraine, Indre-et-Loire, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Manoir de Fontenay (cad. AH 531, 540-547) : inscription par arrêté du 6 mars 1947
Protection dates
1947/03/06 : inscrit MH
Type
manoir
Main period of construction
15e siècle, 16e siècle
Ownership
propriété privée
Commune
Lignières-de-Touraine
Département
Indre-et-Loire
Region
Centre-Val de Loire
Country
France
Coordinates
47.30529, 0.43410
Mérimée reference
PA00097806

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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).

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Ancienne châtellenie relevant de Rillé. Construit à la place d'une villa gallo-romaine, le manoir occupe l'angle nord-ouest d'une enceinte rectangulaire, dont les courtines ont été garnies d'un chemin de ronde et de merlons vers 1910. Le manoir comprend deux bâtiments perpendiculaires, réunis par une aile percée, à son rez-de-chaussée, d'une porte d'accès à la cour intérieure. Le bâtiment nord est flanqué, à ses angles nord-est et nord-ouest, de deux tours cylindriques. L'enceinte était entourée de douves.

English translation

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Former castellany holding of Rillé. Built in place of a Gallo-Roman villa, the manor occupies the north-west angle of a rectangular enclosure, whose curtain walls were furnished with a wall-walk and merlons around 1910. The manor comprises two perpendicular buildings, united by a wing pierced, at its ground floor, by a door giving access to the inner courtyard. The north building is flanked, at its north-east and north-west angles, by two cylindrical towers. The enclosure was surrounded by moats.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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