Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de Genthial
Liorac-sur-Louyre, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château de Genthial : inscription par arrêté du 12 octobre 1948
- Protection dates
- 1948/10/12 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Liorac-sur-Louyre
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.88807, 0.66156
- Mérimée reference
- PA00082617
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 1628 map "Potamographie de Garone et des Fleuves qui Rendent Dedans." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Dans une cour fermée s'ouvrant par un petit et grand portail, corps de logis régulier à haute toiture de tuile. La partie centrale fait un ressaut sur les deux façades. Puits couvert en pierre du 17e siècle. A l'angle de la façade est, deux tourelles carrées posées en encorbellement et surmontées de lanternons.
English translation
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History
In a closed courtyard opening by a small and large portal, the main dwelling is a regular building with a high tile roof. The central part projects on both façades. Stone-covered well of the 17th century. At the corner of the east façade, two square turrets set corbelled and surmounted by small lantern turrets.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Martinéglise1 mi
- Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomptionéglise2 mi
- Château de Garraubechâteau2 mi
- Château de Cléransédifice fortifié2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.