Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de Mauriac
Douzillac, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- En totalité, le château de Mauriac, son châtelet et son enceinte, ses dépendances, le sol de son parc ainsi que les terrains l'entourant (cad. AI 219, 220, 221) : inscription par arrêté du 10 février 2016
- Protection dates
- 2016/02/10:inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Douzillac
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.08920, 0.43179
- Mérimée reference
- PA00082523
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 1714 map "Bourdelois du Perigord." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Château du 15e siècle, établi sur des substructures du 12e. Le corps de logis rectangulaire est flanqué de deux grosses tours rondes à mâchicoulis. La tour carrée qui accostait la façade à l'ouest, a disparu à la Révolution, ainsi que l'enceinte aux huit tours rondes, le donjon et la chapelle. La face ouest conserve un important fragment du chemin de ronde sur mâchicoulis.
English translation
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History
Castle of the 15th century, established on substructures of the 12th. The rectangular main dwelling is flanked by two large round towers with machicolations. The square tower which adjoined the west façade has disappeared during the Revolution, as have the enclosure with eight round towers, the keep and the chapel. The west face retains an important fragment of the wall walk with machicolations.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.