Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château
Sanvensa, Aveyron, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façades et toitures (cad. A 96) : inscription par arrêté du 29 décembre 1967
- Protection dates
- 1967/12/29 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 16e siècle
- Dates
- 1575
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Sanvensa
- Département
- Aveyron
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.29261, 2.04533
- Mérimée reference
- PA00094181
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 "Aquitaniae descriptio" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le château se compose d'un corps de logis flanqué de deux grosses tours rondes face à l'ouest. La couverture de la tour nord-ouest a été foudroyée en 1963. Au premier étage de cette tour, une inscription mentionne la date de 1573. L'édifice comporte trois étages sur caves voûtées. Le donjon carré est le seul vestige du château antérieur. Sur la façade Est, une grande porte d'entrée donne accès à un escalier du 16e siècle. Au nord, une étroite terrasse construite vers 1905 longe le château. Le tracé des fossés a quasiment disparu.
English translation
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History
The castle consists of a main dwelling flanked by two large round towers facing west. The roof of the north-west tower was struck by lightning in 1963. On the first floor of this tower, an inscription mentions the date of 1573. The building comprises three storeys over vaulted cellars. The square keep is the only remnant of the earlier castle. On the East façade, a large entrance door gives access to a 16th-century staircase. To the north, a narrow terrace built around 1905 runs along the castle. The outline of the moats has almost disappeared.