Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Maison dite de Ronsard
Tours, 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. DX 244) : inscription par arrêté du 18 février 1942
- Protection dates
- 1942/02/18 : inscrit MH
- Type
- maison
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Address
- 1 passage des Jacobins
- Commune
- Tours
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.39634, 0.69039
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098241
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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
Maison dite "de Ronsard" à cause de la présence sur la tourelle d'escalier, d'un blason meublé de trois poissons, semblable aux armoiries du poête. Par contre, les poissons sont accompagnés d'une merlette, absente du blason de Ronsard. C'est un bâtiment rectangulaire accompagné, à sa façade sud, d'une tour d'escalier carrée dont la vis n'existe plus que dans sa partie descendant au sous-sol. La tourelle est coiffée d'une courte flèche pyramidale.
English translation
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History
House known as "Ronsard's" because of the presence on the staircase turret of an escutcheon charged with three fish, similar to the arms of the poet. On the other hand, the fish are accompanied by a martlet, absent from Ronsard's coat of arms. It is a rectangular building accompanied, on its south facade, by a square staircase tower whose spiral staircase exists only in the part descending to the basement. The turret is capped by a short pyramidal spire.
Nearby in the register
- Maison dite de Bonaventuremaisonunder 1 mi
- Hôtel de Jean Galland, ou Babou de la Bourdaisièrehôtelunder 1 mi
- Hôtelhôtelunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.