Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Tour Foubert (ou Fulbert) , ou Maison de la Tabagie
Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- L'escalier : inscription par arrêté du 1er juin 1948
- Protection dates
- 1948/06/01 : inscrit MH
- Type
- maison
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Address
- 3 rue Boucicaut ; 6, 8 rue Baleschoux
- Commune
- Tours
- Département
- Indre-et-Loire
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.39516, 0.67409
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098267
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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
Tour élevée au 12e siècle, qui constituait, avec la tour des Pucelle située plus au nord, un ouvrage de défense avancé de l'enceinte de Châteauneuf, protégeant la porte de cette enceinte, dite de l'Ecrignole. Au 17e siècle, elle fut convertie en maison d'habitation et une construction fut appuyée à sa façade orientale, logeant l'escalier. Ces travaux peuvent être attribués au chapitre de Saint-Martin. La tour prit alors le nom de "Maison de la Tabagie". Bâtie sur plan carré et comprenant trois étages sur rez-de-chaussée, la tour fut primitivement plus élevée. Le troisième étage de chaque façade est décoré d'une arcature aveugle de quatre formes en arc brisé, dont les arcs retombaient sur des colonnettes à chapiteaux garnis de feuillages. L'escalier est à rampes droites, en bois. Le départ est formé d'une grande volute décorée de rinceaux, de palmes et d'un médaillon surmonté d'une croix, meublé probablement jadis par des armoiries de la collégiale Saint-Martin. En 1958, la tour s'est partiellement effondrée suite aux travaux menés à ses abords.
English translation
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History
Tower built in the 12th century, which constituted, with the tower of the Pucelle located further to the north, an advanced defensive work of the enclosure of Châteauneuf, protecting the gate of this enclosure, called the Ecrignole. In the 17th century, it was converted into a dwelling house and a construction was leaned against its eastern facade, housing the staircase. These works may be attributed to the chapter of Saint-Martin. The tower then took the name "House of the Tabagie". Built on square plan and comprising three storeys over a ground floor, the tower was primitively higher. The third storey of each facade is decorated with a blind arcade of four forms in pointed arch, the arcs of which fell on small columns with capitals furnished with foliage. The staircase has straight flights, in wood. The departure is formed by a large volute decorated with arabesques, palms and a medallion topped with a cross, furnished probably formerly by arms of the collegiate church of Saint-Martin. In 1958, the tower partially collapsed as a result of works carried out at its edges.
Nearby in the register
- Hôtelhôtelunder 1 mi
- Église paroissiale Notre-Dame-la-Richeégliseunder 1 mi
- Maison dite du Dauphinmaisonunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.