Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château
Orbessan, Gers, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château, avec plafonds, cheminées, boiseries et fontaine de la grande salle : inscription par arrêté du 21 décembre 1942
- Protection dates
- 1942/12/21 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle, 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Orbessan
- Département
- Gers
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.54265, 0.60883
- Mérimée reference
- PA00094883
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 comprend un grand corps de bâtiment flanqué, à l'est et à l'ouest, de deux pavillons carrés. Plafonds en bois peints à la détrempe. Fontaine, cheminées et boiseries de style Louis XV, de la fin du 17e siècle.
English translation
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History
The château comprises a large body of building flanked, to the east and west, by two square pavilions. Ceilings in wood painted in distemper. Fountain, fireplaces and woodwork in Louis XV style, from the late 17th century.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.