Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de Roumailhac
La Tour-Blanche, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façades et toitures (cad. B 271, 272, 274) : inscription par arrêté du 24 juin 1948
- Protection dates
- 1948/06/24 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- La Tour-Blanche
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.36565, 0.44637
- Mérimée reference
- PA00083024
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 1714 map "Bourdelois du Perigord." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Demeure composée de deux corps de bâtiments soudés en équerre par une tour hexagonale d'escalier. Les lucarnes de la cour ont leur rampant décoré d'un singe et d'un chien sculptés. Une figure grotesque d'homme enjambe le sommet du rampant.
English translation
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History
Dwelling composed of two building bodies joined at right angles by a hexagonal stair tower. The dormers of the courtyard have their rampant decorated with a sculpted monkey and dog. A grotesque figure of a man straddles the top of the rampant.
Nearby in the register
- Ruines du donjonédifice fortifiéunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Cybardégliseunder 1 mi
- Ruines du château de Jovellechâteauunder 1 mi
- Grotte ornée de Jovellesite archéologiqueunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.