Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Donjon
Jayac, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Donjon (cad. D 93) : inscription par arrêté du 12 octobre 1948
- Protection dates
- 1948/10/12 : inscrit MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Jayac
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.03080, 1.34510
- Mérimée reference
- PA00082590
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1785 map "35 Sarlat." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Important donjon du 12e siècle, découronné. L'accès se fait par un porche en arc brisé qui conserve quelques pans de murailles. Etroites meurtrières. Le fief fut incendié en 1790.
English translation
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History
Important keep of the 12th century, decapitated. Access is made by a pointed arch porch which retains some sections of walls. Narrow arrow-slits. The fief was burned in 1790.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Julienégliseunder 1 mi
- Croix dite de la Fauriecroix monumentale2 mi
- Église Saint-Barthélémyéglise2 mi
- Presbytèrepresbytère2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.