Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Logis et chapelle de l'Audrière
Saint-Mesmin, Vendée, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Logis et chapelle (cad. A 941, 946) : inscription par arrêté du 6 juin 1988
- Protection dates
- 1988/06/06 : inscrit MH
- Type
- manoir
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle, 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Saint-Mesmin
- Département
- Vendée
- Region
- Pays de la Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.82228, -0.77674
- Mérimée reference
- PA00110255
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IGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Poictov Pictaviensis Comit" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ancienne seigneurie ayant appartenu en 1577 à René de Tallensac, époux de Marie du Puy-du-Fou. L'ensemble se compose d'un corps de logis remontant au 15e siècle et qui conserve plusieurs pièces dans un état proche de l'origine, et une chapelle construite au 16e siècle, de plan rectangulaire flanquée et cantonnée de contreforts cylindriques, dont l'un abrite un escalier ; la chapelle est voûtée d'ogives à liernes et possède un portail Renaissance extrêmement soigné.
English translation
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History
Former seigneury which belonged in 1577 to René de Tallensac, husband of Marie du Puy-du-Fou. The ensemble consists of a main dwelling dating from the 15th century which preserves several rooms in a state close to the original, and a chapel built in the 16th century, of rectangular plan flanked and cantonned with cylindrical buttresses, one of which houses a staircase; the chapel is vaulted with lierne rib vaults and possesses an extremely fine Renaissance portal.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.