Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de la Motte-Sonzay
Sonzay, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Château de la Motte-Sonzay (cad. E 36) : classement par arrêté du 25 avril 1959
- Protection dates
- 1959/04/25 : classé MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Dates
- 1507
- Ownership
- propriété d'une société privée
- Lieu-dit
- la Motte
- Commune
- Sonzay
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.51222, 0.46300
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098117
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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 des châteaux de Tours et La Vallière. Construit à l'emplacement d'un édifice féodal des 12e et 15e siècles, par Antoine de Loubes, panetier du roi, le château s'élevait primitivement sur un plan quadrangulaire. Quatre tours renforçaient les angles et l'accès se faisait par une poterne avec pont-levis. Au 19e siècle, les deux ailes joignant la tour de la chapelle furent abattues et la cour devint une terrasse. Sur cette terrasse se développent deux façades du 16e siècle, séparées par une tour polygonale renfermant l'escalier, dont la construction paraît remonter au 19e siècle et qui a conservé une porte gothique avec fleuron et pinacles.
English translation
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History
Former castellany which depended on the castles of Tours and La Vallière. Built on the site of a feudal building of the 12th and 15th centuries, by Antoine de Loubes, pantler of the king, the castle originally stood on a quadrangular plan. Four towers reinforced the angles and access was by a postern with drawbridge. In the 19th century, the two wings joining the chapel tower were demolished and the courtyard became a terrace. On this terrace two 16th-century façades develop, separated by a polygonal tower containing the staircase, whose construction appears to date from the 19th century and which has retained a Gothic door with floron and pinnacles.
Nearby in the register
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