Esternay · Marne
The moated domain of Esternay
The château of Esternay, in the Marne, is protected with the elements that frame its grounds: the dovecote, the moats and the great entrance gate of the domain.
From the source
Château d'Esternay is a château at Esternay, Marne, in the Grand Est region of France. The recorded building campaign dates from the 16th century. It is protected as a monument historique at the higher of the two levels (classé). Details are drawn from the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture.
Editorial reading
The Mérimée record gives no narrative history. Its protection line is what we have: the two sixteenth-century doorways were classified in 1931; the façades and roofs of the château and of the outbuildings, the dovecote, the moats and the great entrance portal near the outbuildings were listed in 1961. The Base Mérimée records a garden among the site’s features; the moats and the gate are the parts of that setting the protection describes.
Sources
Base Mérimée — immeubles protégés · PA00078704 — Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab) — Ministère de la Culture, base Mérimée
The château by this garden
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