Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancien château
Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château (cad. AE 527) : inscription par arrêté du 12 novembre 1926 ; Tour d'entrée (cad. AE 527) : inscription par arrêté du 30 juin 1936
- Protection dates
- 1926/11/12 : inscrit MH, 1936/06/30 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- rue du Château
- Commune
- Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.11152, 0.62037
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098085
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 tour d'entrée est une construction carrée dont le couronnement a disparu, mais qui présente, au-dessus de sa porte, les rainures de manoeuvre des bras du pont-levis. L'intérieur contient, au rez-de-chaussée, l'ancien passage et une salle au-dessus.
English translation
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History
The entrance tower is a square construction whose crowning has disappeared, but which presents, above its door, the grooves for operating the drawbridge arms. The interior contains, on the ground floor, the old passage and a room above.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Blaiseégliseunder 1 mi
- Maison du 16e sièclemaisonunder 1 mi
- Hallesmarché couvertunder 1 mi
- Ancienne chapelle priorale Saint-Mesminchapelleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.