Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancien château
Montrichard, Loir-et-Cher, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé), in part
- Protection
- classé MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Donjon (cad. AT 304, 315 à 318, 358 à 361) : classement par arrêté du 14 juillet 1877
- Protection dates
- 1877/07/14 : classé MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 11e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Montrichard
- Département
- Loir-et-Cher
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.34345, 1.18573
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098513
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 1592 map "Topographia Aug. Turon Ducatus et confinium Gallia Cestica ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ouvrage militaire du 11e siècle, présentant des tours carrées flanquées de contreforts, divisées à l'origine par des planchers.
English translation
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History
Military work of the 11th century, presenting square towers flanked by buttresses, originally divided by floors.
Nearby in the register
- Deux maisons en bois du 15e sièclemaisonunder 1 mi
- Maison du 16e sièclemaisonunder 1 mi
- Fontaine dite fontaine Saint-Cellerinfontaineunder 1 mi
- Maison en bois du 16e siècle dite de l'Ave Mariamaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.