Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de la Forêt
Ygrande, Allier, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Partie subsistante du chemin de ronde avec sa tour (cad. D 149) : inscription par arrêté du 28 décembre 1981
- Protection dates
- 1981/12/28 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle, 19e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété d'une association
- Commune
- Ygrande
- Département
- Allier
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.53922, 2.95326
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093374
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
Bâtisse du 19e siècle ayant remplacé un édifice médiéval dont il ne subsiste des fortifications qu'une tour et un mur la reliant au château. Ce mur comporte un chemin de ronde. Cette tour circulaire, datable du 15e siècle, est percée d'une porte et d'une meurtrière au sol, d'une porte de communication avec le chemin de ronde et d'une baie en plein cintre à l'étage.
English translation
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History
Building of the 19th century having replaced a medieval building of which there remain from the fortifications only a tower and a wall connecting it to the castle. This wall includes a hoarding. This circular tower, datable to the 15th century, is pierced with a door and a murder-hole at ground level, a communicating door with the hoarding and a round-arch opening at the storey above.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.