Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Porte fortifiée
Rillé, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Porte fortifiée : inscription par arrêté du 28 octobre 1935
- Protection dates
- 1935/10/28 : inscrit MH
- Type
- porte de ville
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- route de Château la Vallière
- Commune
- Rillé
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.45376, 0.24782
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098037
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1637 map "The Dvkedome of Turone. Touraine. Tvronensis Ducatus" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Porte fortifiée construite en blocage, constituée par un massif de maçonnerie ouvert d'une baie en tiers point, et par deux massifs en retour d'équerre. Vestiges unique des fortifications de Rillé, ancienne place forte des ducs d'Anjou.
English translation
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History
Fortified gate built in rubble masonry, constituted by a mass of masonry pierced by an opening with a pointed arch, and by two masses in return angles. Unique vestiges of the fortifications of Rillé, former stronghold of the Dukes of Anjou.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Loupégliseunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Quentinéglise2 mi
- Manoir du Mesnilmanoir2 mi
- Ruines du châteauchâteau3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.