La Tour Sainte Anne

lundi 15 juillet 2019

The interior is cleared out!

The old wine press bath has been removed, as with the general detritus of the years. The overall state of the fabric is now visible, and one can perceive the scale of the guard room itself. The first floor is still inaccessible as the staircase is entirely missing, and the floor boards and the beams beneath look pretty 'dicky', if picturesque!

mardi 7 mai 2019

Tour à l"Angle, Nord-Ouest - May 2019

jeudi 25 avril 2019

Project ‘bache’ put up in location

dimanche 24 mars 2019

Permission granted for the restoration

After a wait of four years...

24 Mars 2019

Chers amis,

Nous avons le plaisir de vous informer que Frédéric Aubenton, Conservateur régional des monuments historiques, nous a signifié par lettre du 28 février 2019 l'autorisation des travaux de restauration du Pavillon d'angle. Philippe, Patrice et moi-même recevront à déjeuner le 10 avril prochain les cinq chefs d'entreprise pour lancer officiellement le début des travaux.

Par ailleurs, le maire de Richelieu a donné son accord pour la mise en place de la bâche pendant les travaux de restauration aux dimensions (3 m x 4 m) que nous avions proposées.

Bien amicalement,

Bernard Gaborit

Fonds de Dotation

Ville cardinale

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24 March 2019

Dear friends,

We are pleased to inform you that Frédéric Aubenton, Regional Conservator of Historic Monuments, has sent us by letter of February 28, 2019, the authorization of the restoration work on the Corner Pavilion. Philippe, Patrice and I will have lunch on April 10 next with the five entrepreneurs to officially launch the start of work.

In addition, the Mayor of Richelieu agreed to the installation of the project tarpaulin during the restoration works of dimensions (3m x 4m) that we had proposed.

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jeudi 1 octobre 2015

TOUR SAINTE ANNE

RESTORATION

…when the moat was flooded...

To raise funds to help a restoration project in our beautiful local town, we would like to sell you a 'Richelieu Christmas Card'.

Tour Sainte Anne is an iconic 17th century vestige of cardinal-duc Armand-Jean du Plessis' Richelieu - untouched, architecturally perfect but now dilapidated. As friends of Richelieu, we would like to ask you to help by buying this wonderful and evocative Christmas/Greetings Card.

Alan Halliday, an acclaimed professional artist who lives nearby, has kindly donated the use of his painting free of charge. The interior of the card will be blank to enable its use for Christmas but also all year-round.

'Richelieu in the snow'

All the profits from the sale of the card will be donated to the restoration of Tour Sainte Anne.

The restoration of the tower continues the work of Le Fonds de Dotation - Ville Cardinale which has already restored the gates at the Porte de Chinon.

http://richelieu-eminencerouge.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Dotation

The card will be quality produced with a full colour front page and supplied with an envelope included. The minimum order is for 20 cards and envelopes at £20/€26 (plus p&p if required.)

To ensure that we can get the most competitive printing costs and ensure we raise as much money for the project as possible, if you are interested, please could you give an indication of the number of cards you would like to purchase in an e-mail to Alison Kimber-Bates.

Should this idea be widely embraced, Alan Halliday has a number of other wonderful images that could be used to create further greeting cards. We would like to encourage other local artists to also consider donating the reproduction rights of their images to be used to fundraise for this and other projects in the future.

If you know anyone who you think would like to purchase these cards, please feel free to forward this e-mail to them and help us to restore the Tour Sainte Anne. If you could indicate how many cards you would like by 15th October 2015, that would be very helpful so that we can get the order placed.

We look forward to hearing back from you to place your order.

Ali & David Kimber-Bates alikimberbates@yahoo.co.uk

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