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Château de La Ménaudière

Chissay-en-Touraine, Loir-et-Cher, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
Protection
inscrit MH partiellement
Extent of protection
Porte fortifiée ; deux pavillons d'angle de l'enceinte : inscription par arrêté du 30 juillet 1963
Protection dates
1963/07/30 : inscrit MH
Type
château
Main period of construction
15e siècle, 16e siècle, 17e siècle, 19e siècle
Dates
1650, 1898
Ownership
propriété d'une société privée
Commune
Chissay-en-Touraine
Département
Loir-et-Cher
Region
Centre-Val de Loire
Country
France
Coordinates
47.35417, 1.15647
Mérimée reference
PA00098415

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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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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Autour de 1443, est construit un château dont il subsiste la porte fortifiée occidentale et les courtines. Au début du 16e siècle est bâti l'édifice actuel, ainsi que des courtines adjacentes au bâtiment de servitudes, le long de la porte fortifiée. A la fin du 16e siècle, deux pavillons carrés sont construits aux angles ouest et sud, et les douves sont refaites. Vers 1650, François Gaillard, seigneur de la Menaudière, en devient propriétaire et fait doubler le château dans le même style. En 1898, édification de l'aile nord-ouest. Les façades Est dominent l'ancien étang qui alimentait les douves en eau et qui a été en partie asséché et converti en potager.

English translation

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Around 1443, a castle was built of which there remain the western fortified gate and the curtain walls. At the beginning of the 16th century the present building was constructed, as well as curtain walls adjacent to the service building, along the fortified gate. At the end of the 16th century, two square pavilions are built at the west and south corners, and the moat is remade. Around 1650, François Gaillard, lord of la Menaudière, becomes its owner and has the castle doubled in the same style. In 1898, the north-west wing is built. The east façades overlook the former pond which supplied water to the moat and which was partly drained and converted into a vegetable garden.

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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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