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Manoir du Plessis

Vouvray, Indre-et-Loire, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
Protection
inscrit MH partiellement
Extent of protection
Façades et toitures du corps de logis ; partie subsistante du bâtiment annexe et de la fuye attenante (cad. BY 3, 5) : inscription par arrêté du 22 décembre 1981
Protection dates
1981/12/22 : inscrit MH
Type
manoir
Main period of construction
17e siècle
Ownership
propriété privée
Commune
Vouvray
Département
Indre-et-Loire
Region
Centre-Val de Loire
Country
France
Coordinates
47.43843, 0.78521
Mérimée reference
PA00098300

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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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Ancien fief relevant de la prévoté d'Oé. Le logis est un long bâtiment rectangulaire surmontant une cave faisant la totalité de l'édifice. Sur la façade occidentale, à l'angle sud-ouest, se trouve une tourelle, qui était certainement circulaire, et qui repose comme en encorbellement sur une petite voûte en trompe et en demi berceau. Au nord-est, une tourelle a disparu, une porte et d'importants accrochements subsistant. Les ruines d'un second logis, du 17e siècle, en brique et pierre, sont situées plus au nord. Il s'agit d'un pavillon carré prolongé au sud d'une aile un peu plus en retrait. A l'angle nord-est est située un très grosse fuye circulaire dont les boulins ont été rebouchés.

English translation

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Former fief dependent on the provostry of Oé. The main dwelling is a long rectangular building surmounting a cellar occupying the entire edifice. On the western façade, at the south-west angle, is found a turret, which was certainly circular, and which rests as if in corbelling on a small vault in squinch and half barrel vault. To the north-east, a turret has disappeared, a door and significant attachment points remaining. The ruins of a second main dwelling, from the 17th century, in brick and stone, are situated further to the north. It is a square pavilion extended to the south by a wing set back slightly. At the north-east angle is situated a very large circular dovecote whose nesting holes have been filled in.

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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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