Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de la Chesnaye
Saint-Mars-de-Locquenay, Sarthe, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château, y compris le grand escalier, ainsi que les jardins environnants (cad. AC 93, 143 à 156) : inscription par arrêté du 7 août 1997
- Protection dates
- 1997/08/07 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 2e moitié 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Saint-Mars-de-Locquenay
- Département
- Sarthe
- Region
- Pays de la Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.92694, 0.48930
- Mérimée reference
- PA72000006
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — Géoportail
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
Petite seigneurie rurale construite à la fin du 17e siècle, peu modifiée au 18e siècle (l'intérieur conserve un riche décor de ces deux époques : sols en terre cuite, lambris, ...). C'est une grande maison flanquée de deux pavillons et accompagnée d'un jardin.
English translation
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History
Small rural seigneury constructed at the end of the 17th century, little modified in the 18th century (the interior preserves rich décor from these two periods: terracotta floors, wainscoting, ...). It is a large house flanked by two pavilions and accompanied by a garden.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Médardégliseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.