Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de Lamargé
Fontanges, Cantal, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château, y compris les murs de soutènement, les escaliers et les portails des clôtures et des terrasses (cad. B 64) : inscription par arrêté du 1er juillet 1986
- Protection dates
- 1986/07/01 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle, 16e siècle, 18e siècle
- Later work
- 19e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Fontanges
- Département
- Cantal
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.11466, 2.50331
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093512
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 1636 map "La partie Septentrionale du Languedoc" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Remanié au cours des siècles, le château se compose d'une tour carrée du 14e siècle incorporée dans le corps de logis de la fin du 16e, de plan rectangulaire, cantonné de deux tours à chaque extrémité de sa façade sud. Au 18e siècle, agrandissement de l'édifice sur l'arrière, et ajout d'une aile. Des communs du 19e siècle et des terrasses d'époque classique l'entourent. A l'intérieur, décors d'époque dans l'aile du 18e siècle, composés de boiseries peintes, dessus de cheminée, parquets en bois fruitier, plafonds à rosaces et corniches.
English translation
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History
Remodelled over the centuries, the château comprises a square tower of the 14th century incorporated into the main dwelling of the end of the 16th, of rectangular plan, flanked by two towers at each end of its south façade. In the 18th century, enlargement of the building at the rear, and addition of a wing. Outbuildings of the 19th century and terraces of the classical period surround it. In the interior, decoration of the period in the wing of the 18th century, composed of painted woodwork, chimney-pieces, parquet flooring in fruitwood, ceilings with roses and cornices.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Vincentégliseunder 1 mi
- Château de Palmontchâteau1 mi
- Maison des Templiersmaison2 mi
- Maisonmaison2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.