Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château des Forges
Suèvres, Loir-et-Cher, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Corps de bâtiment central, tourelle polygonale et ouverture murée avec fronton voisin de cette tourelle : inscription par arrêté du 4 octobre 1946
- Protection dates
- 1946/10/04 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle, 16e siècle
- Dates
- 1510
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Suèvres
- Département
- Loir-et-Cher
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.66684, 1.46485
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098611
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
Vers 1510, est bâti un pavillon flanqué d'une tour hexagonale hors-oeuvre. Le château actuel se compose d'un ensemble de bâtiments irréguliers. Le corps de logis central, carré, est flanqué d'une tourelle d'escalier polygonale, à mâchicoulis.
English translation
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History
Towards 1510, a pavilion flanked by a hexagonal tower projecting from the wall is built. The present château comprises an irregular collection of buildings. The central main dwelling, square in plan, is flanked by a polygonal stair turret with machicolations.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Lubinégliseunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Christopheégliseunder 1 mi
- Restes des anciennes fortificationsfortification d'agglomérationunder 1 mi
- Château de Dizierschâteauunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.