Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancienne prison
Beaugency, Loiret, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façade (cad. F4 1168) : inscription par arrêté du 17 mai 1933
- Protection dates
- 1933/05/17 : inscrit MH
- Type
- prison
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- 34 rue du Change
- Commune
- Beaugency
- Département
- Loiret
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.77828, 1.63074
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098699
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1760 map "28 Vendome." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ancienne façade avec ouvertures en pierre dure, agrandies au 15e siècle pour en faire de grandes baies à meneaux et croisillons en pierre. D'autres modifications furent opérées ultérieurement.
English translation
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History
Former façade with hard stone openings, enlarged in the 15th century to make large bays with stone mullions and crosses. Other alterations were made subsequently.
Nearby in the register
- Tour dite de l'Horlogeédifice fortifiéunder 1 mi
- Hôtel de villehôtel de villeunder 1 mi
- Maison à pans de boismaisonunder 1 mi
- église Saint-Étienneégliseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.