Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de Cousserand
Bélaye, Lot, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façades et toitures (cad. E 317) : inscription par arrêté du 16 mai 1974
- Protection dates
- 1974/05/16 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Bélaye
- Département
- Lot
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.44717, 1.20994
- Mérimée reference
- PA00094982
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1637 map "Aquitania" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La construction, ou du moins l'achèvement du château actuel remonte à la fin du 14e ou au début du 15e siècle. C'est un édifice à deux corps de bâtiments, flanqué d'une tour. Il offre la particularité d'avoir tous ses angles arrondis. Sous la toiture, le système de défense à mâchicoulis est assez complet. Au nord et au sud, deux terrasses donnent accès au château.
English translation
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History
The construction, or at least the completion of the present castle dates to the end of the 14th or the beginning of the 15th century. It is a building with two bodies of structures, flanked by a tower. It offers the peculiarity of having all its angles rounded. Under the roof, the defence system of machicolations is quite complete. To the north and south, two terraces give access to the castle.
Nearby in the register
- Ancien presbytèrepresbytère1 mi
- Maison dite Raynalymaison1 mi
- Église Saint-Aignan dite Église Grandeéglise2 mi
- Autel des Rogations ou oratoire ou reposoir de Sauzetoratoire3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.