Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de Bonnivet
Vendeuvre-du-Poitou, Vienne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Les vestiges (cad. D 424 à 432) : inscription par arrêté du 19 septembre 2001
- Protection dates
- 2001/09/19 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle, 17e siècle
- Dates
- 1660
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Vendeuvre-du-Poitou
- Département
- Vienne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.72716, 0.33367
- Mérimée reference
- PA86000014
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1770 map "67 Poitiers." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Bonnivet a été le modèle de l'abbaye de Thélème, le projet le plus ambitieux de la première Renaissance française avant Chambord. Guillaume Gouffier, favori de François Ier, fait construire en 1515 un château comportant une façade à deux tours d'angle. Resté inachevé à sa mort, le château subit d'importants travaux entre 1649 et 1672. A partir de 1788, le château est vendu par lots. Les éléments encore en place correspondent au mur de clôture nord de la cour d'honneur, datant de 1660. A une centaine de mètres de la plate-forme du château, un bâtiment construit au 19e siècle a réutilisé des éléments du château.
English translation
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History
Bonnivet was the model for the abbey of Thélème, the most ambitious project of the first French Renaissance before Chambord. Guillaume Gouffier, favourite of François Ier, had a château constructed in 1515 comprising a façade with two corner towers. Left unfinished at his death, the château underwent major works between 1649 and 1672. From 1788 onwards, the château was sold in lots. The elements still in place correspond to the north enclosure wall of the courtyard of honour, dating from 1660. About a hundred metres from the platform of the château, a building constructed in the 19th century reused elements from the château.
Nearby in the register
- Château des Rocheschâteauunder 1 mi
- Château des Chézeaux en bordure du CR 7château1 mi
- Église Saint-Aventinéglise1 mi
- Croix du Grand-Guécroix monumentale2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.