Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Maison
Fontenay-sur-Loing, Loiret, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Porte du 15e siècle (cad. AE 36) : inscription par arrêté du 12 janvier 1931
- Protection dates
- 1931/01/12 : inscrit MH
- Type
- maison
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Address
- route de Fontainebleau
- Commune
- Fontenay-sur-Loing
- Département
- Loiret
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.10599, 2.77285
- Mérimée reference
- PA00098779
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 LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1782 map "8 Orleans." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La maison s'ouvre par une porte du 15e siècle qui vient du château de Cornou, près de Fontenay. Les jambages forment des tours et le linteau une forteresse, le tout avec échauguettes, créneaux et mâchicoulis. Culs de lampe sculptés aux extrémités.
English translation
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History
The house opens with a 15th-century door that comes from the castle of Cornou, near Fontenay. The jambs form towers and the lintel a fortress, all with arrow slits, crenellations and machicolations. Sculpted corbels at the extremities.
Nearby in the register
- Tour funéraire dite Tour Faffemonumentunder 1 mi
- Croix de l'Hosannairecroix de cimetière1 mi
- Ancienne abbayeabbaye1 mi
- Église abbatiale Saint-Pierreéglise1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.