Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Pyramide des Chartreux
Sennevières, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Pyramide des Chartreux : inscription par arrêté du 26 novembre 1956
- Protection dates
- 1956/11/26 : inscrit MH
- Type
- monument
- Main period of construction
- 3e quart 18e siècle
- Dates
- 1770
- Ownership
- propriété de l'État
- Address
- R.N. 760 ; route forestière Georges-d'Amboise
- Commune
- Sennevières
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.13345, 1.09486
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098111
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 1750 map "Composite 9: Carte de France." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Cette pyramide fait partie d'un ensemble de quatre qui servaient de repère pour les chasses, et tire son nom de la proximité de la Chartreuse du Liget. Contrairement aux trois autres pyramides qui sont sur plan carré, celle-ci est sur plan hexagonal. Les six faces du piédestal présentent un encorbellement. Une gorge le sépare de la pyramide proprement dite dont l'amortissement, qui était probablement une sphère, a disparu.
English translation
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History
This pyramid is part of a set of four which served as landmarks for hunts, and takes its name from the proximity of the Carthusian monastery of Liget. Contrary to the three other pyramids which are on a square plan, this one is on a hexagonal plan. The six faces of the pedestal present a corbelling. A gorge separates it from the pyramid properly speaking whose finial, which was probably a sphere, has disappeared.
Nearby in the register
- Chapelle Saint-Jean-du-Ligetchapelle1 mi
- Pyramide de Montaigumonument2 mi
- Ancienne chartreuse du Ligetabbaye2 mi
- Église paroissiale Saint-Leubaiséglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.