Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Tour de Mauvières
Loches, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Tour de Mauvières (cad. BH 91) : classement par arrêté du 2 février 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/02/02 : classé MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- Moyen Age
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- rue des Carriers
- Commune
- Loches
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.11196, 0.99982
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097833
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 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 ville qui s'étendait à l'ouest, au pied du château, était défendue par une enceinte flanquée de tours et percée de quatre portes dont seules deux subsistent.
English translation
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History
The town which extended to the west, at the foot of the château, was defended by an enclosure flanked by towers and pierced by four doors of which only two remain.
Nearby in the register
- Ancienne chapelle de Vignemontchapelleunder 1 mi
- Château et son enceintechâteauunder 1 mi
- Vestiges de la porte Poitevine et la tour d'enceinte, ou Mailletporte de villeunder 1 mi
- Ancien prieuré Saint-Oursprieuréunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.