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Château

Sourniac, Cantal, France

The record

Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
Protection
inscrit MH partiellement
Extent of protection
Façades et toitures du château y compris celles de la chapelle (cad. A 308) : inscription par arrêté du 8 mars 1983
Protection dates
1983/03/08 : inscrit MH
Type
château
Main period of construction
2e quart 17e siècle, 4e quart 19e siècle
Dates
1636, 1890
Architect or builder
Moreau René (architecte)
Ownership
propriété privée
Commune
Sourniac
Département
Cantal
Region
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Country
France
Coordinates
45.27860, 2.35192
Mérimée reference
PA00093694

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Aquitaniae descriptio" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Construit au 17e siècle dans un style encore médiéval, Sourniac présente une silhouette caractéristique des manoirs rustiques construits à l'époque par des familles récemment annoblies ; ces châteaux semblent des modèles réduits archaïques des grands châteaux médiévaux cantaliens. Une aile de communs construite au milieu du 18e siècle, fut détruite par un incendie en 1885 et remplacée en 1890 par une chapelle néo-romane dûe à l'architecte moulinois René Moreau.

English translation

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Built in the 17th century in a still medieval style, Sourniac presents a silhouette characteristic of rustic manors built at that time by recently ennobled families; these castles seem archaic miniature models of the great medieval castles of Cantal. A wing of outbuildings built in the middle of the 18th century was destroyed by fire in 1885 and replaced in 1890 by a neo-Romanesque chapel designed by the Moulins architect René Moreau.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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