Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château d'Esclignac
Monfort, Gers, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Le château en totalité, avec ses dépendances entourant les deux cours et l'ancienne église (cad. A 328), ainsi que le sol des parcelles d'assiette A 327 et 328 : inscription par arrêté du 16 septembre 2016
- Protection dates
- 2016/09/16:inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 15e siècle, 1er quart 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété d'une société privée
- Commune
- Monfort
- Département
- Gers
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.80406, 0.80468
- Mérimée reference
- PA00094867
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesBibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1742 map "Languedoc, occidentale." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le noyau ancien se compose du bâtiment nord-ouest flanqué, au nord, d'un donjon carré et, au sud, d'une tour d'escalier. La poterne en constituait l'entrée. La chapelle, construite en dehors de l'enceinte, a été restaurée au 19e siècle.
English translation
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History
The ancient core consists of the north-west building flanked, to the north, by a square keep and, to the south, by a staircase tower. The postern constituted its entrance. The chapel, built outside the enclosure, was restored in the 19th century.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.