Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de Toury et son enceinte
Saint-Pourçain-sur-Besbre, Allier, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château et son enceinte : inscription par arrêté du 13 février 1928
- Protection dates
- 1928/02/13 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Saint-Pourçain-sur-Besbre
- Département
- Allier
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.47994, 3.64013
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093286
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
Construction féodale, présentant l'aspect d'une enceinte fortifiée. L'origine de ce plan pourrait provenir d'une ancienne motte féodale fossoyée, entourée de palissades qui furent, ultérieurement, remplacées par un mur. Puis des constructions habitables seraient venues s'appuyer sur l'enceinte.
English translation
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History
Feudal construction, presenting the appearance of a fortified enclosure. The origin of this plan could come from an ancient moated feudal motte, surrounded by palisades which were subsequently replaced by a wall. Then habitable constructions would have come to rest against the enclosure.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.