Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Restes de l'ancien château du Grand Launay
Semblançay, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château du Grand Launay (restes de l'ancien) (cad. C 147) : inscription par arrêté du 3 juin 1932
- Protection dates
- 1932/06/03 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Semblançay
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.50992, 0.57185
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098107
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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
Construit sur un terrain carré entouré de douves, le château comprend le bâtiment d'habitation principal constitué par deux corps de logis. A l'est, se trouve un autre bâtiment d'habitation. L'angle sud-ouest conserve une fuye carrée couverte d'un lanternon. L'angle sud-est est protégé par une tourelle carrée. Une porte fortifiée s'ouvre dans le mur fermant la cour à l'ouest, munie primitivement d'un pont-levis qui a été remplacé par un pont dormant. Une tour de défense disparue occupait l'angle nord-est. Cet édifice est l'une des plus intéressantes gentilhommières fortifiées de la fin du 16e siècle qui subsistent.
English translation
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History
Built on square ground surrounded by a moat, the castle comprises the main dwelling building consisting of two ranges of lodgings. To the east is found another dwelling building. The south-west angle preserves a square dove-cote covered with a lantern roof. The south-east angle is protected by a square turret. A fortified door opens in the wall closing the courtyard to the west, originally fitted with a drawbridge which was replaced by a fixed bridge. A lost tower of defence occupied the north-east angle. This building is one of the most interesting fortified gentilhommières of the late 16th century which survive.
Nearby in the register
- Château de Dolbeauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Martinégliseunder 1 mi
- Vestiges du châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Pierreéglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.