Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ruines du château de Vallon
Lacroix-Barrez, Aveyron, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château de Vallon (ruines) : inscription par arrêté du 21 octobre 1925
- Protection dates
- 1925/10/21 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Lacroix-Barrez
- Département
- Aveyron
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.73793, 2.63390
- Mérimée reference
- PA00094039
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
Le château, construit en moellons bruts, sauf le donjon, comprend une avant-cour entièrement fermée par les bâtiments d'habitation qui bordaient une cour intérieure au fond de laquelle se trouve un mur plein qui forme chemise au donjon. Une deuxième porte faisait communiquer ce couloir avec un passage. Il fallait contourner le donjon pour trouver l'entrée. Le donjon avait une échauguette à chaque angle et une salle haute entourée de mâchicoulis. Il est datable, avec la chapelle, de la fin du 14e siècle.
English translation
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History
The castle, built in rough rubble stone except for the keep, comprises a forecourt entirely closed by residential buildings which bordered an inner courtyard at the back of which is found a solid wall forming a sleeve to the keep. A second door made this passage communicate with another passage. One had to go around the keep to find the entrance. The keep had a corner turret at each angle and a high hall surrounded by machicolations. It is datable, with the chapel, to the late 14th century.