Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Manoir du Vivier
Cour-Cheverny, Loir-et-Cher, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façades et toitures de la tour carrée et des deux tourelles (cad. A 26) : inscription par arrêté du 11 octobre 1971
- Protection dates
- 1971/10/11 : inscrit MH
- Type
- manoir
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Cour-Cheverny
- Département
- Loir-et-Cher
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.53056, 1.42954
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098424
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1637 map "The Dvkedome of Turone. Touraine. Tvronensis Ducatus" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Petit manoir composé d'un bâtiment long, flanqué au nord d'une tour carrée plus haute d'un étage, percée d'ouvertures du 15e siècle. Au sud, à distance du logis, deux tours circulaires percées de meurtrières, servaient d'angles et défendaient le mur et l'enceinte entourée de fossés. Un commun est situé à l'est.
English translation
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History
Small manor consisting of a long building, flanked on the north by a square tower taller by one storey, pierced with openings from the 15th century. To the south, at a distance from the main dwelling, two circular towers pierced with loopholes, served as corners and defended the wall and the enclosure surrounded by ditches. An outbuilding is located to the east.
Nearby in the register
- Château de Cononchâteau1 mi
- Prieuré de Montrionprieuré1 mi
- Château de Chevernychâteau2 mi
- église Saint-Étienneéglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.