Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Manoir du Grand-Saint-Quentin
Berd'huis, Orne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façades et toitures (cad. ZB 16) : inscription par arrêté du 27 décembre 1974
- Protection dates
- 1974/12/27 : inscrit MH
- Type
- manoir
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Berd'huis
- Département
- Orne
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.36567, 0.72043
- Mérimée reference
- PA00110745
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 1636 map "Perchensis Comitatus : La Perche Comte" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le manoir actuel a remplacé des constructions antérieures. Dès le début du 12e siècle, le premier seigneur de Saint-Quentin avait planté à cet emplacement un château qui pouvait être une simple tour de bois. Au cours du 16e siècle, édification du château actuel. Le bâtiment se termine à l'ouest par une tourelle, et à l'est par une tour carrée. Les traces d'une ancienne tourelle qui devait être accolée à la muraille et devait reposer sur un cul de lampe.
English translation
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History
The present manor replaced earlier constructions. From the beginning of the 12th century, the first lord of Saint-Quentin had planted at this location a castle which could have been a simple wooden tower. In the course of the 16th century, construction of the present castle. The building terminates on the west with a small tower, and on the east with a square tower. The traces of an old small tower which was to be attached to the wall and was to rest on a corbel.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.