Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de la Roussie
Proissans, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château de la Roussie (cad. D 302) : inscription par arrêté du 4 octobre 1946
- Protection dates
- 1946/10/04 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle, 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Proissans
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.92064, 1.25267
- Mérimée reference
- PA00082775
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 1637 map "Aquitania" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Repaire noble détruit en 1575 par le maréchal Montluc, relevé en 1600. Logis barlong surmonté d'un châtelet carré sur corbeaux au-dessus de la porte. Aux angles, tourelles en encorbellement. Donjon carré refait. Fragments de l'enceinte avec poterne d'entrée dans le parc. Petite chapelle du 17e siècle. Au rez-de-chaussée, la porte d'entrée est ornée de pilastres et d'un fronton.
English translation
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History
Noble stronghold destroyed in 1575 by the Marshal Montluc, rebuilt in 1600. Long rectangular main dwelling topped by a square châtelet on corbels above the door. At the corners, corbelled turrets. Square keep rebuilt. Fragments of the curtain wall with entrance postern in the park. Small chapel of the 17th century. On the ground floor, the entrance door is ornamented with pilasters and a pediment.
Nearby in the register
- Ruines du château de Temniacchâteau2 mi
- Église Notre-Dame de Temniacéglise2 mi
- Manoir du Cluzeaumanoir2 mi
- Chapelle de Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Encontrechapelle3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.