Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château
Sepmes, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé), in part
- Protection
- classé MH partiellement, inscrit MH partiellement, protection totale
- Extent of protection
- Château (cad. D 129) : classement par arrêté du 26 mai 1977 ; Bâtiment des communs (cad. D 140) : inscription par arrêté du 26 mai 1977
- Protection dates
- 1977/05/26 : classé MH, 1977/05/26 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Sepmes
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.06699, 0.67521
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098112
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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 qui relevait de Sainte-Maure. Le château a été construit pour Jean de Taix, gouverneur de Loches et ambassadeur à Rome, grand maître de l'artillerie en 1546, mort au siège de Hesdin en 1553. De la construction Renaissance subsiste un corps de logis rectangulaire, flanqué au sud d'un bâtiment décalé sur plan carré. Celui-ci doit être la partie la plus ancienne du château, qui a remplacé la forteresse primitive. Le corps de logis principal devait comporter deux étages, mais il a été en partie rasé. A l'intérieur, il conserve un escalier droit proche de celui d'Azay-le-Rideau dont les rampes droites sont couvertes d'un plafond rampant à caissons sculptés de grands fleurons. La cheminée de la grande salle est décorée de peintures portant la devise concordia fratrum. Dans la cour, un puits a conservé sa margelle monolithe aux gargouilles sculptées ressemblant à des lions. Les dépendances ont été très endommagées et mutilées. La façade Est était ornée de colonnes rondes à chapiteaux corinthiens.
English translation
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History
Former châtellenie which came under Sainte-Maure. The château was built for Jean de Taix, governor of Loches and ambassador to Rome, grand master of artillery in 1546, died at the siege of Hesdin in 1553. Of the Renaissance construction there subsists a rectangular main dwelling, flanked on the south by a building offset on a square plan. This latter must be the oldest part of the château, which replaced the primitive fortress. The main body of the dwelling must have comprised two storeys, but it has been partly razed. Inside, it preserves a straight staircase close to that of Azay-le-Rideau whose straight flights are covered with a sloping coffered ceiling decorated with large fleurons. The chimney-piece of the great hall is decorated with paintings bearing the device concordia fratrum. In the courtyard, a well has preserved its monolithic curb with carved gargoyles resembling lions. The outbuildings have been very much damaged and mutilated. The east façade was adorned with round columns with Corinthian capitals.
Nearby in the register
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