Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancien archevêché, actuellement musée des Beaux-Arts
Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Ensemble des bâtiments de l'ancien archevêché (cad. DW 275, 278) : classement par arrêté du 27 juin 1983
- Protection dates
- 1983/06/27 : classé MH
- Type
- archevêché
- Main period of construction
- Gallo-romain, 12e siècle, 17e siècle, 18e siècle
- Later work
- 1er quart 20e siècle
- Dates
- 1753, 1775
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- place François-Sicard ; rue Fleury ; rue des Ursulines ; rue Général-Meusnier
- Commune
- Tours
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.39519, 0.69480
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098132
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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
Le palais des Archevêques fut construit sur les substructions de l'enceinte gallo-romaine, dont il a respecté la tour d'angle sud-ouest. Du palais du 12e siècle subsiste un corps de logis formant la partie orientale de l'ensemble et qui fut l'Officialité. Au 15e siècle, l'archevêque Jean de Bernard éleva entre ce bâtiment et la tour romaine un édifice qui a disparu. Au 17e siècle, l'archevêque Bertrand d'Eschaux entreprit la reconstruction, terminée en 1658, du palais. Enfin, de 1753 à 1755, l'archevêque Rosset de Fleury construisit un second palais doublant celui du 17e siècle. L'ensemble comporte aussi des écuries du 17e siècle et une porte d'entrée élevée en 1775. L'ancien archevêché a été transformé en musée des Beaux-Arts en 1905.
English translation
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History
The Archbishops' Palace was built on the substructions of the Gallo-Roman fortification, of which it respected the south-west corner tower. Of the 12th-century palace there subsists a body of dwelling forming the eastern part of the ensemble and which was the Officiality. In the 15th century, Archbishop Jean de Bernard raised between this building and the Roman tower an edifice which has disappeared. In the 17th century, Archbishop Bertrand d'Eschaux undertook the reconstruction, completed in 1658, of the palace. Finally, from 1753 to 1755, Archbishop Rosset de Fleury built a second palace doubling that of the 17th century. The ensemble also comprises 17th-century stables and an entrance door erected in 1775. The former archbishopric was transformed into a Museum of Fine Arts in 1905.
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