Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancien château de Montgauger (ou Mongoger)
Saint-Epain, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façades et toitures du châtelet et de la tour d'entrée Nord (cad. AS 14 ; AT 2) : inscription par arrêté du 2 juin 1976
- Protection dates
- 1976/06/02 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 1ère moitié 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Saint-Epain
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.15238, 0.56161
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098073
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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
Ancienne châtellenie relevant du château de Sainte-Maure. L'entrée principale du château se trouvait au pied de la tour de l'ancien châtelet, qui devait avoir son pendant. Elle se situe au nord des ruines du château ducal incendié. C'est une tour ronde et couronnée de mâchicoulis décoratifs, composée d'un rez-de-chaussée et flanquée d'une tourelle d'escalier également ronde. Au sud du château se trouve une porte présentant un genre de châtelet constitué d'un porche en anse de panier encadré de deux tours rondes placées en saillie de l'angle extérieur. Une grande fenêtre présente un meneau entouré de pilastres plats à chapiteaux et dominé d'un fronton en coquille, permettant de dater l'édifice du début de la Renaissance.
English translation
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History
Former castellany dependent on the castle of Sainte-Maure. The main entrance of the castle was located at the foot of the tower of the old chatelet, which must have had its counterpart. It is situated to the north of the ruins of the ducal castle that was burned. It is a round tower crowned with decorative machicolations, composed of a ground floor and flanked by a round staircase turret also round. To the south of the castle there is a door presenting a kind of chatelet consisting of a basket-handle arch porch flanked by two round towers placed as projections from the outer corner. A large window presents a mullion surrounded by flat pilasters with capitals and topped by a shell pediment, allowing the building to be dated to the beginning of the Renaissance.
Nearby in the register
- Église paroissiale Saint-Epainéglise1 mi
- Porte fortifiéeporte de ville1 mi
- Oppidum dit des Deux Mansesoppidum3 mi
- Église paroissiale Saint-Perpetéglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.