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Hôtel Cottereau

Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
Protection
inscrit MH partiellement
Extent of protection
Le vestibule d'entrée avec sa porte sur cour et le portique attenant : inscription par arrêté du 13 juillet 1926
Protection dates
1926/07/13 : inscrit MH
Type
hôtel
Main period of construction
15e siècle, 16e siècle
Ownership
propriété privée
Address
7 rue des Trois-Ecritoires
Commune
Tours
Département
Indre-et-Loire
Region
Centre-Val de Loire
Country
France
Coordinates
47.39291, 0.68025
Mérimée reference
PA00098167

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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).

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Hôtel Renaissance construit au 15e siècle et agrandi au 16e. Le vestibule d'entrée présente un plafond de pierre sculpté d'époque François Ier. Au fond du vestibule, ouvrant sur la cour, la porte est de la même époque, encadrée de deux pilastres avec chapiteaux sculptés. A la partie supérieure se trouve un tympan triangulaire orné d'arabesques. Au centre de ce tympan se détache un buste d'homme, sans doute un membre de la famille Cottereau qui donna plusieurs maires à la ville.

English translation

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Renaissance hotel built in the 15th century and enlarged in the 16th. The entrance vestibule presents a sculptured stone ceiling of the François Ier period. At the back of the vestibule, opening onto the courtyard, the door is of the same period, framed by two pilasters with carved capitals. At the upper part is found a triangular tympanum decorated with arabesques. At the centre of this tympanum stands out a bust of a man, doubtless a member of the Cottereau family which provided several mayors to the city.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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