Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de la Cour-en-Chapeau
Chapeau, Allier, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé), in part
- Protection
- classé MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façades et toitures du château (y compris la poterne et les communs) (cad. C 14) : classement par arrêté du 4 octobre 1972
- Protection dates
- 1972/10/04 : classé MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle, 4e quart 16e siècle
- Dates
- 1595
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Chapeau
- Département
- Allier
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.48829, 3.51479
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093037
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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
En 1462, le fief devient propriété de Hugues de Buyat qui fait construire le château sur deux mottes contiguës, l'une portant l'habitation, l'autre les dépendances. Ces constructions étaient isolées par des fossés en forme de 8. Le château se compose d'une habitation formée de deux corps de logis perpendiculaires, inscrite à l'intérieur d'un quadrilatère aux angles garnis de tours circulaires. Au sud-est s'étend un jardin à la française et au nord-ouest la cour d'entrée où l'on pénètre par la guette et que limitent, au nord-ouest et au sud-ouest, les communs dont les angles sont défendus par des tours circulaires. La construction est en brique de deux couleurs : briques noires enn losanges sur fond de briques rouges ; décor de chevrons de briques noires sur fond de briques rouges (15e siècle).
English translation
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History
In 1462, the fief became the property of Hugues de Buyat who had the castle built on two contiguous mounds, one bearing the dwelling, the other the outbuildings. These constructions were isolated by ditches in the form of a figure 8. The castle is composed of a dwelling formed by two perpendicular main dwellings, inscribed within a quadrilateral with angles furnished with circular towers. To the south-east extends a French garden and to the north-west the entrance court which is entered by the watchtower and which is bounded, to the north-west and south-west, by the outbuildings whose angles are defended by circular towers. The construction is in brick of two colours: black bricks in lozenges on a background of red bricks; decoration of black brick chevrons on a red brick background (15th century).
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.