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Château

Bardou, Dordogne, France

The record

Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Château (cad. B 55) : inscription par arrêté du 12 octobre 1948
Protection dates
1948/10/12 : inscrit MH
Type
château
Main period of construction
14e siècle, 15e siècle, 18e siècle
Dates
1777
Ownership
propriété privée
Commune
Bardou
Département
Dordogne
Region
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Country
France
Coordinates
44.73700, 0.68888
Mérimée reference
PA00082336

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Aquitaniae descriptio" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Le corps de logis rectangulaire est flanqué d'une tour carrée à mâchicoulis du 14e siècle, et d'une tour ronde du 15e siècle. Les fenêtres sont à meneaux cruciformes. Au 17e siècle, une aile basse en retour d'équerre fut bâtie sur la façade ouest. Cette aile est dénommée "de l'évêque" car Monseigneur de Souillac, évêque de Lodève, y avait sa chambre flanquée d'une chapelle aujourd'hui disparue. Symétriquement, une autre aile fut élevée en 1777, avec un porche fait de deux baies en plein cintre qui abritent un escalier de pierre.

English translation

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The rectangular main dwelling is flanked by a square tower with 14th-century machicolations, and a round tower of the 15th century. The windows have cruciform mullions. In the 17th century, a low wing set at right angles was built on the west façade. This wing is called "de l'évêque" because Monseigneur de Souillac, bishop of Lodève, had his chamber there flanked by a chapel now disappeared. Symmetrically, another wing was erected in 1777, with a porch made of two round-arch openings which shelter a stone staircase.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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