Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château des Roches
Saint-Quentin-sur-Indrois, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façades et toitures de la tour et du pigeonnier (cad. D 240) : inscription par arrêté du 29 octobre 1971
- Protection dates
- 1971/10/29 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle, 15e siècle, 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Saint-Quentin-sur-Indrois
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.20316, 1.03078
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098099
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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 du château de Loches. En 1449, Jean du Puy, propriétaire, obtint l'autorisation de fortifier le château. En 1488, il fut acquis par Adam Fumée, premier médecin de Charles VII et de Louis XI. Très restauré au 19e siècle, l'édifice est flanqué à l'est d'une haute tour circulaire en petit appareil, datant du 14e siècle, denier vestige de l'habitation fortifiée primitive. Elle a été ornée, au 16e siècle, de bandeaux moulurés séparant chacun des quatre étages. La porte présente un plein cintre retombant sur des pilastres, dominé par un fronton triangulaire reposant sur une autre rangée de pilastres. La tour comporte un vaste escalier à vis sur trois étages, le quatrième étant composé d'une pièce à feu ayant sans doute servi de salle de veille. Le dernier étage, rajouté au 16e siècle, est légèrement en retrait des corbeaux des anciens mâchicoulis et est couvert en dôme à imbrications d'écailles couronné d'un lanterneau. Au sud, épaulée par un commun, se trouve une tour carrée qui servait de pigeonnier, percée de 1600 boulins carrés creusés dans le parement.
English translation
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History
Former fief dependent on the castle of Loches. In 1449, Jean du Puy, owner, obtained authorization to fortify the castle. In 1488, it was acquired by Adam Fumée, first physician of Charles VII and Louis XI. Extensively restored in the 19th century, the building is flanked to the east by a tall circular tower in small ashlar, dating from the 14th century, the last vestige of the primitive fortified dwelling. It was decorated in the 16th century with moulded bands separating each of the four storeys. The door presents a round arch springing from pilasters, dominated by a triangular pediment resting on another row of pilasters. The tower comprises a vast spiral staircase over three storeys, the fourth consisting of a hearth room which probably served as a watch room. The top storey, added in the 16th century, is slightly set back from the corbels of the old machicolations and is covered with a dome with scale imbrications crowned by a lantern. To the south, buttressed by a service building, stands a square tower which served as a dovecote, pierced with 1600 square nesting holes carved into the facing.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Quentinégliseunder 1 mi
- Pyramide de Saint-Quentinmonument2 mi
- Ancienne abbaye de la Bourdillièreabbaye3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.