Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château
Gontaud-de-Nogaret, Lot-et-Garonne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château (cad. C 478) : inscription par arrêté du 14 août 1958
- Protection dates
- 1958/08/14 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Gontaud-de-Nogaret
- Département
- Lot-et-Garonne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.45623, 0.29578
- Mérimée reference
- PA00084133
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 1783 map "72 Castillonez, Velleneuve, La Reole." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le château comprend deux grandes salles et une petite tour, qui se répètent sur trois niveaux. L'escalier à vis dessert les deux salles. Deux escaliers à vis en échauguettes partent des tours, au dernier étage, pour atteindre les combles de ces deux tours. Il reste quelques menuiseries d'époque avec ferrures, des carrelages en terre cuite. L'édifice est signalé en 1662 comme étant en ruine et les habitants l'utilisaient comme carrière de pierre. Cet édifice aurait été épargné en 1579 ou 1580 lors de la destruction totale de la ville par le maréchal de Biron, catholique.
English translation
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History
The castle comprises two large halls and a small tower, which are repeated on three levels. The spiral staircase serves the two halls. Two spiral staircases in watch-towers depart from the towers, on the top storey, to reach the roof spaces of these two towers. There remain some period carpentry with ironwork, terracotta tiling. The building is reported in 1662 as being in ruins and the inhabitants used it as a stone quarry. This building is said to have been spared in 1579 or 1580 when the city was completely destroyed by the marshal de Biron, a Catholic.
Nearby in the register
- Église Notre-Dameégliseunder 1 mi
- Hallehalleunder 1 mi
- Château de Biracchâteau3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.