Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Maison des Vertus cardinales
Saint-Menoux, Allier, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- La porte avec son tympan sculpté (cad. B 833) : inscription par arrêté du 7 novembre 2000
- Protection dates
- 2000/11/07 : inscrit MH
- Type
- maison
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 17e siècle
- Dates
- 1694
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Menoux
- Département
- Allier
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.58458, 3.15724
- Mérimée reference
- PA03000010
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1632 map "Carte du Pais de Bourbonois." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Cette maison datée de 1694 pourrait avoir appartenu au couvent de bénédictins qui vit le passage de Madame de Montespan en 1700. Sa façade est remarquable par la présence d'une porte surmontée d'un tympan sculpté en bas-relief, de qualité exceptionnelle, représentant quatre femmes, allégories des vertus cardinales.
English translation
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History
This house dated 1694 could have belonged to the convent of Benedictine monks which saw the passage of Madame de Montespan in 1700. Its façade is remarkable for the presence of a door surmounted by a lintel carved in bas-relief, of exceptional quality, representing four women, allegories of the cardinal virtues.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Menouxégliseunder 1 mi
- Château de Clusorschâteauunder 1 mi
- Château de Souyschâteau1 mi
- Château des Echardonschâteau1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.