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Château de Javerlhac

Javerlhac-et-la-Chapelle-Saint-Robert, Dordogne, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
Protection
inscrit MH partiellement
Extent of protection
Les façades et les toitures (cad. C 88) : inscription par arrêté du 29 novembre 1974
Protection dates
1974/11/29 : inscrit MH
Type
château
Main period of construction
16e siècle
Ownership
propriété privée
Commune
Javerlhac-et-la-Chapelle-Saint-Robert
Département
Dordogne
Region
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Country
France
Coordinates
45.56852, 0.55933
Mérimée reference
PA00082586

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1777 map "69 Angouleme." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

La seigneurie, dépendant de la baronnie de Nontron, avait pour seigneurs suzerains les vicomtes de Limoges. Le château est reconstruit vers 1498 par Dauphin Pastoureau, maître de forge à Nontron. Une description de 1730 indique que le château est à trois tours carrées et rondes. En 1888, le donjon, haute tour carrée, n'existe plus. L'édifice actuel se compose de deux corps de logis en retour d'équerre, soudés par une tour polygonale, à mâchicoulis, renfermant l'escalier qui dessert les deux bâtiments. Le logis ouest, rehaussé à la fin du 19e siècle, devait à l'origine posséder un chemin de ronde qu continuait celui de la tour ronde. A l'angle nord-ouest de ce logis s'élève une grosse tour ronde à mâchicoulis ornés de trilobes et portés sur des corbeaux à trois redans.

English translation

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The lordship, depending on the barony of Nontron, had as suzerain lords the viscounts of Limoges. The castle is rebuilt around 1498 by Dauphin Pastoureau, master of the forge at Nontron. A description from 1730 indicates that the castle has three square and round towers. In 1888, the keep, a high square tower, no longer exists. The present edifice is composed of two blocks of main dwelling at right angles, joined by a polygonal tower with machicolations, containing the staircase which serves both buildings. The west main dwelling, raised at the end of the 19th century, was originally meant to possess a wall-walk which continued that of the round tower. At the north-west angle of this main dwelling rises a large round tower with machicolations ornamented with trilobe designs and borne on corbels with three tiers.

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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