Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château des Cartes
Sonzay, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Les façades et les toitures (cad. A 268) : inscription par arrêté du 22 mai 1948
- Protection dates
- 1948/05/22 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Sonzay
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.53275, 0.43953
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098116
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1637 map "The Dvkedome of Turone. Touraine. Tvronensis Ducatus" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le domaine des Cartes existait déjà au 12e siècle. En 1105, il fut donné à l'abbaye de Marmoutier. Au 18e siècle est construit le château actuel, composé d'un bâtiment central se développant entre deux pavillons en légère saillie sur chacune des deux façades. Deux ailes le prolongent à l'ouest et à l'est. Les façades du corps de logis central sont divisées en trois travées par des pilastres soutenant, au-dessus de la travée médiane, un fronton triangulaire.
English translation
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History
The domain of the Cartes already existed in the 12th century. In 1105, it was given to the abbey of Marmoutier. In the 18th century the present castle was constructed, composed of a central building developing between two pavilions in slight projection on each of the two façades. Two wings extend it to the west and east. The façades of the central main dwelling body are divided into three bays by pilasters supporting, above the central bay, a triangular pediment.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.