Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de Ris
Besson, Allier, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château de Ris : inscription par arrêté du 13 février 1928
- Protection dates
- 1928/02/13 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle, 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Besson
- Département
- Allier
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.47151, 3.25499
- Mérimée reference
- PA00092998
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 1632 map "Carte du Pais de Bourbonois." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Petit château féodal composé d'un corps de logis avec de vastes pièces à cheminées, flanqué de deux tours rondes à l'est et d'une tourelle d'escalier à l'ouest. Porte d'entrée avec tympan à crochets et pinacles.
English translation
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History
Small feudal castle composed of a main dwelling with vast rooms with fireplaces, flanked by two round towers to the east and a staircase turret to the west. Entrance door with crocket and pinnacle tympanum.
Nearby in the register
- Château de Rochefortchâteauunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Martinégliseunder 1 mi
- Château du Vieux-Bostchâteauunder 1 mi
- Château de Fourchaudchâteau1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.