Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château des Belles Ruries
Monnaie, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Colombier (cad. F 301) : inscription par arrêté du 8 juin 1989
- Protection dates
- 1989/06/08 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 1er quart 17e siècle
- Dates
- 1611
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Monnaie
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.48950, 0.75680
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097868
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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
Autrefois construit au milieu des communs, le pigeonnier des Belles Ruries en est le seul vestige et fait aujourd'hui face au château reconstruit à la fin du 19e siècle. Construit en 1611 (date gravée au-dessus de la porte) , il adopte une forme circulaire coiffée d'une imposante toiture à quatre niveaux superposés et surmontés d'un lanternon. Les trois derniers niveaux, ajourés pour le passage des pigeons sont de forme hexagonale. L'intérieur comporte 1200 trous de boulins accessibles par deux échelles tournantes.
English translation
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History
Formerly built in the midst of the outbuildings, the dovecote of les Belles Ruries is its only remaining vestige and now faces the château rebuilt at the end of the 19th century. Built in 1611 (date carved above the door), it adopts a circular form crowned by an imposing roof with four superimposed levels topped by a lantern turret. The last three levels, open for the passage of pigeons, are of hexagonal form. The interior comprises 1200 pigeon-hole openings accessible by two rotating ladders.
Nearby in the register
- Manoir de Bourdigalmanoir1 mi
- Ferme monastique de Meslayferme2 mi
- Domaine de La Chutechâteau2 mi
- Château de Baudrychâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.