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Prestrière de Moineaux

Barjouville, Eure-et-Loir, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Vestiges de la prestrière (cad. A 352) : inscription par arrêté du 27 juin 1994
Protection dates
1994/06/27 : inscrit MH
Type
château
Main period of construction
16e siècle
Dates
1551
Ownership
propriété privée
Lieu-dit
Moineaux
Commune
Barjouville
Département
Eure-et-Loir
Region
Centre-Val de Loire
Country
France
Coordinates
48.39499, 1.48563
Mérimée reference
PA00132559

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1767 map "27 Chartres." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Ce vestige était le portail de l'ancienne prestrière du chapitre cathédral de Chartres, dont l'ensemble de l'édifice a presque entièrement disparu. La partie conservée comprend le piedroit de l'arc et l'amorce du voûtement (en pierre de taille et blocage de moellons) , un mur perpendiculaire de stabilisation (en moellons) , et une échauguette circulaire en surlplomb sur l'angle (en briques). Le cul de lampe est sculpté de lions et de putti en pierre. L'artiste a parfaitement réussi la difficile jonction entre un soubassement rectangulaire et une construction circulaire. Il a équilibré sa composition de part et d'autre de l'axe central.

English translation

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This remnant was the portal of the former prestrière of the cathedral chapter of Chartres, the entire building of which has almost completely disappeared. The preserved part comprises the voussoir of the arch and the beginning of the vaulting (in ashlar stone and rubble stone infill), a perpendicular stabilising wall (in rubble stone), and a circular lookout tower projecting over the corner (in brick). The corbel is carved with lions and putti in stone. The artist successfully achieved the difficult junction between a rectangular base and a circular construction. He balanced his composition on either side of the central axis.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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