Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de Ramefort
Valeuil, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façades et toitures du château à l'exception du bâtiment annexe (cad. A 205) : inscription par arrêté du 15 décembre 1980
- Protection dates
- 1980/12/15 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle, 15e siècle, 19e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Valeuil
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.34558, 0.62409
- Mérimée reference
- PA00083043
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1711 map "Le Gouvernement General De Guinne et Gascogne ...." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le repaire aurait été construit au 11e siècle. Bâti à pic sur le rocher, avec un mur d'enceinte percé de meurtrières, le château commande la route qui longe la rivière, à mi chemin entre Brantôme et Bourdeilles. Le corps de logis principal est flanqué de trois tours qui furent rasées à la Révolution. Un châtelet d'entrée ferme la cour qui forme une enceinte complète mais dont les bâtiments annexes furent remplacés, au 19e siècle, par les constructions actuelles, dont une galerie à colonnes. Le mur ancien du donjon, percé d'une fenêtre trilobé, subsiste.
English translation
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History
The repaire would have been built in the 11th century. Built sheer on the rock, with an enclosure wall pierced with gunloops, the castle commands the road which runs along the river, midway between Brantôme and Bourdeilles. The main dwelling block is flanked by three towers which were razed at the Revolution. A gatehouse closes the courtyard which forms a complete enclosure but of which the outbuildings were replaced, in the 19th century, by the present constructions, including a gallery with columns. The old wall of the keep, pierced with a trilobed window, subsists.
Nearby in the register
- Cluzeau de Chambrebruneagglomérationunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Pantaléonégliseunder 1 mi
- Gisement préhistoriquesite archéologique2 mi
- Ancienne abbayeabbaye2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.