Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Logis de Chavigny
Sainte-Gemme-la-Plaine, Vendée, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Logis (cad. ZP 100, 127) : inscription par arrêté du 3 février 1999
- Protection dates
- 1999/02/03 : inscrit MH
- Type
- grange monastique, manoir
- Main period of construction
- 2e moitié 15e siècle
- Later work
- 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Sainte-Gemme-la-Plaine
- Département
- Vendée
- Region
- Pays de la Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.46500, -1.08154
- Mérimée reference
- PA85000016
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1607 map "Poictou" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ancienne grange de l'abbaye cistercienne de Moreilles, fondée à la fin du 11e siècle. Après la guerre de Cent Ans, construction du logis actuel pendant la seconde moitié du 15e siècle. Au 18e siècle, la grange est transformée en logis abbatial. Abbaye vendue comme bien national en 1791. L'édifice possède encore des éléments architecturaux du 15e siècle : escalier en vis, cheminées, charpente à la bordelaise, ...
English translation
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History
Former barn of the Cistercian abbey of Moreilles, founded at the end of the 11th century. After the Hundred Years War, construction of the present main dwelling during the second half of the 15th century. In the 18th century, the barn is transformed into an abbatial dwelling. Abbey sold as national property in 1791. The building still possesses architectural elements from the 15th century: spiral staircase, fireplaces, Bordeaux-style roof structure, ...
Nearby in the register
- Égliseéglise2 mi
- Logis de la Popelinièremaison2 mi
- Château de la Chevallerie et ses dépendances (bâtiments les constituant)château2 mi
- Égliseéglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.