Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Manoir
Commeaux, Orne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Manoir (extérieurs et intérieurs) (cad. C 201) : classement par arrêté du 5 décembre 1963
- Protection dates
- 1963/12/05 : classé MH
- Type
- manoir
- Main period of construction
- 2e quart 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Commeaux
- Département
- Orne
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.78714, -0.11113
- Mérimée reference
- PA00110779
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 1750 map "Composite 4: Carte de France." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Manoir bâti en équerre. Deux tours rondes flanquent les angles nord-est et nord-ouest. Une petite tour d'escalier marque l'angle rentrant de l'équerre. La tour occidentale servit quelques temps de chapelle.
English translation
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History
Manor built in an L-shape. Two round towers flank the north-east and north-west angles. A small staircase tower marks the re-entrant angle of the L-shape. The western tower served for a time as a chapel.
Nearby in the register
- Église de Cuyéglise2 mi
- Château de Cuychâteau2 mi
- Manoir de Pommereuxmanoir3 mi
- Église de Vaux-le-Bardoultéglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.