Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Tour
Montrichard, Loir-et-Cher, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Tour attenant à l'immeuble rue Philippe-Auguste (cad. AT 170) : inscription par arrêté du 24 septembre 1932
- Protection dates
- 1932/09/24 : inscrit MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- Moyen Age
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Address
- place du Commerce
- Commune
- Montrichard
- Département
- Loir-et-Cher
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.34314, 1.18275
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098521
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
Cette tour est un élément du dernier rempart de l'ancienne ville fortifiée, où s'ouvrait l'une des quatre portes principales, sur l'ancienne voie de Tours à Bourges.
English translation
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History
This tower is an element of the last rampart of the former fortified town, where one of the four main gates opened, on the former route from Tours to Bourges.
Nearby in the register
- Maison du 16e sièclemaisonunder 1 mi
- Fontaine dite fontaine Saint-Cellerinfontaineunder 1 mi
- Ancien châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Deux maisons en bois du 15e sièclemaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.