Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château
Calamane, Lot, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château : inscription par arrêté du 29 mars 1929
- Protection dates
- 1929/03/29 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Calamane
- Département
- Lot
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.52310, 1.39395
- Mérimée reference
- PA00095034
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 1637 map "Aquitania" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Château édifié à la fin du 15e siècle, vendu comme bien national en 1796. Il est formé d'un corps de logis quadrangulaire flanqué, sur la façade nord, de deux grosses tours cylindriques, décapitées à la Révolution. La façade sud est flanquée d'une tour polygonale avec escalier intérieur à vis. La porte d'entrée et la baie qui s'ouvre au-dessus d'elle, sont encadrées de pilastres à pinacles et enrichies de choux. A l'intérieur, cheminées et plafond à la française.
English translation
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History
Castle erected at the end of the 15th century, sold as national property in 1796. It is formed of a quadrangular main dwelling flanked, on the north façade, by two large cylindrical towers, decapitated at the Revolution. The south façade is flanked by a polygonal tower with an interior spiral staircase. The entrance door and the opening which opens above it, are framed by pilasters with pinnacles and enriched with acanthus leaves. Inside, fireplaces and French ceilings.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.