Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de Mavaleix
Chaleix, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château : inscription par arrêté du 16 décembre 1947
- Protection dates
- 1947/12/16 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle, 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Chaleix
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.50432, 0.95890
- Mérimée reference
- PA00082460
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1711 map "Le Gouvernement General De Guinne et Gascogne ...." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le château s'élève près de la forge. Il est ceint d'un chemin de ronde ininterrompu, coiffé de hauts toits d'ardoise. L'édifice se compose d'un corps de logis, de deux tours pyramidales et d'une troisième tour coiffée d'une cloche. Sans doute construit au 13e siècle, le château a été relevé au 16e.
English translation
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History
The château rises near the forge. It is surrounded by an uninterrupted wall-walk, capped with high slate roofs. The building comprises a main dwelling, two pyramidal towers and a third tower capped with a bell. No doubt built in the 13th century, the château was reconstructed in the 16th.
Nearby in the register
- Ancienne forge de Mavaleixforgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.