Lémeré · Indre-et-Loire
The courtyard fountain and gardens of Le Rivau
Rebuilt in one campaign in the 1450s for Pierre de Beauvau, governor of Anjou and Maine, Le Rivau at Lémeré keeps in the court of its sixteenth-century outbuildings a seventeenth-century fountain with an eight-sided basin.
From the source
Château du Rivau is a château at Lémeré, Indre-et-Loire, in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France. The recorded building campaigns date from the 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Its architecture is recorded as Renaissance. 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 record describes a château of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries rebuilt in the 1450s on a hill along the Veude valley, and outbuildings of the sixteenth century arranged in a U around a quadrangular court with three corner towers, stables in the west wing and an eighteenth-century barn to the east. In the court stands a seventeenth-century fountain: an octagonal basin and a rectangular block with a sculpted crown. The château was classified in 1918, the stables and gateway in 1999. The flower garden before the château, photographed here, is documented by the image; the record does not describe the planting.
Recommendation
The fountain in the court is the oldest garden ornament on the site, and the flower beds around the château take their cue from it.
Sources
Base Mérimée — immeubles protégés · PA00097802 — Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab) — Ministère de la Culture, base Mérimée
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