Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de Laxion
Corgnac-sur-l'Isle, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Le château avec sa cour, les dépendances agricoles et les terrains d'assiette, en totalité (cad. A 627, 628, 635 à 639, 1186, 1308 à 1311) : inscription par arrêté du 9 octobre 2009
- Protection dates
- 2009/10/09 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle, 2e moitié 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Corgnac-sur-l'Isle
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.38018, 0.93116
- Mérimée reference
- PA00082499
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1703 map "Map of the Geography of Ancient France). (continued.)" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Château bâti en partie au 16e siècle. Quatre corps de logis sont soudés par quatre tours qui limitent une cour intérieure. Sur la façade principale, en son centre, tour carrée commandant le pont-levis. La façade sud était percée de lucarnes Renaissance. Cour intérieure avec porche nord surmonté d'un motif Renaissance.
English translation
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History
Castle built in part in the 16th century. Four dwelling bodies are joined by four towers which limit an interior courtyard. On the main façade, in its centre, a square tower commanding the drawbridge. The south façade was pierced with Renaissance dormers. Interior courtyard with north porch surmounted by a Renaissance motif.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.