Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ruines du château de Fontenay-Isoré
Saint-Bauld, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Les ruines du château : inscription par arrêté du 9 août 1949
- Protection dates
- 1949/08/09 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Saint-Bauld
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.16999, 0.83217
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098061
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
Ancien fief relevant de la Tour Isoré et du château de Sennevières. De la forteresse rectangulaire du 15e siècle, subsistent divers éléments. Limitée par des douves, l'enceinte du château devait être flanquée d'au moins quatre tours d'angle. L'entrée au-dessus des douves devait se faire au milieu du côté sud. Au centre de l'enceinte Est, les arrachements de croisées d'ogives sur la face nord des bâtiments encore existants, laissent voir qu'une grande salle devait relier ceux-ci à la tour nord-est. Le bâtiment sud conserve un sous-sol voûté dont les piliers sont reliés par des arcs surbaissés caractéristiques des 15e et 16e siècles.
English translation
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History
Former fief depending on the Tour Isoré and the château of Sennevières. From the rectangular fortress of the 15th century, various elements survive. Bordered by ditches, the château's perimeter wall was to be flanked by at least four corner towers. Entry over the ditches was to be made in the middle of the south side. At the centre of the East perimeter, the fractures of rib vaults on the north face of the still existing buildings reveal that a great hall was to connect them to the north-east tower. The south building preserves a vaulted basement whose pillars are connected by depressed arches characteristic of the 15th and 16th centuries.
Nearby in the register
- Manoir du Puymanoir2 mi
- Église paroissiale Saint-Sulpiceéglise2 mi
- Ancienne ferme abbatialeferme2 mi
- Croix du cimetièrecroix de cimetière2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.