Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Sous-Préfecture
Romorantin-Lanthenay, Loir-et-Cher, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé), in part
- Protection
- classé MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Tour : classement par arrêté du 12 octobre 1932
- Protection dates
- 1932/10/12 : classé MH
- Type
- sous-préfecture
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété du département
- Commune
- Romorantin-Lanthenay
- Département
- Loir-et-Cher
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.35783, 1.74243
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098558
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1760 map "29 Blois." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La tour est le dernier vestige de l'ancien château, pris par les Anglais en 1356. Il a été en partie reconstruit aux 15e et 16e siècle. Louise de Savoie, mère de François Ier, y reçut Anne de Bretagne. La tour a été transformée au début du 16e siècle, époque à laquelle une brèche fut faite pour construire des croisées formant avant-corps terminé par un gâble, avec une grande coquille sculptée, des crochets et des fleurons.
English translation
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History
The tower is the last remnant of the old castle, taken by the English in 1356. It was partly rebuilt in the 15th and 16th centuries. Louise of Savoy, mother of François I, received Anne of Brittany there. The tower was transformed at the beginning of the 16th century, at which time a breach was made to construct cross-windows forming an avant-corps terminated by a gable, with a large sculpted shell, crockets and fleurons.
Nearby in the register
- Tour Jacquemardédifice fortifiéunder 1 mi
- Maison Louis XIIImaisonunder 1 mi
- Maison à pans de boismaisonunder 1 mi
- Église Notre-Dame, puis Saint-Etienne de Romorantinégliseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.