Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de la Rolphie
Coulounieix-Chamiers, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château de la Rolphie : inscription par arrêté du 16 décembre 1947
- Protection dates
- 1947/12/16 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Coulounieix-Chamiers
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.15285, 0.66033
- Mérimée reference
- PA00082506
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid 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
Primitivement s'élevait à cet endroit une villa gallo-romaine dont furent retrouvés colonnes et chapiteaux. Un repaire s'éleva sur ces ruines au Moyen-Age. Probablement détruit pendant les guerres anglaises, il fut remplacé au début du 16e siècle par un manoir comprenant un corps de logis à deux tourelles d'angle en encorbellement, et une galerie de pilastres moulurés, réunis par plate bande, ayant accolé un pavillon carré à usage de chapelle. La chapelle est ornée de douze colonnes corinthiennes. Caves voûtées.
English translation
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History
Originally there stood at this location a Gallo-Roman villa of which columns and capitals were found. A fortified house rose on these ruins in the Middle Ages. Probably destroyed during the English wars, it was replaced at the beginning of the 16th century by a manor comprising a main dwelling with two corner turrets in corbelling, and a gallery of moulded pilasters, joined by a band, having attached a square pavilion used as a chapel. The chapel is ornamented with twelve Corinthian columns. Vaulted cellars.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.