Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Maison dite du doyen Toussaint
Mortagne-au-Perche, Orne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façades et toitures (cad. AC 388) : inscription par arrêté du 3 juillet 1975
- Protection dates
- 1975/07/03 : inscrit MH
- Type
- maison
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Address
- 3 rue du Fort
- Commune
- Mortagne-au-Perche
- Département
- Orne
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.52317, 0.54738
- Mérimée reference
- PA00110866
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 1636 map "Perchensis Comitatus : La Perche Comte" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Maison construite pour le doyen de la collégiale, à la fin du 15e siècle. C'est un hôtel en pierre blanche, avec une tour à huit pans contenant l'escalier. Le pignon est appuyé sur une tour ronde trapue qui était l'une des tours d'angle de l'enceinte de Mortagne.
English translation
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History
House built for the dean of the collegiate church, at the end of the 15th century. It is a white stone hotel, with an eight-sided tower containing the staircase. The gable is supported on a squat round tower which was one of the corner towers of the Mortagne fortifications.
Nearby in the register
- Ancienne collégiale de Toussaintcollégialeunder 1 mi
- Maison de Henri IVmaisonunder 1 mi
- Maison dite maison des comtes du Perchemaisonunder 1 mi
- Porte Saint-Denisporte de villeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.