Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de Laroque
Cahors, Lot, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château (cad. C 597, 598, 599) : inscription par arrêté du 27 décembre 1963
- Protection dates
- 1963/12/27 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château fort
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Cahors
- Département
- Lot
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.47250, 1.45157
- Mérimée reference
- PA00095127
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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
L'origine du château serait liée à la nécessité de protéger l'aqueduc romain qui alimentait Cahors en eau, et qui fut démantelé par les Anglais lors de la guerre de Cent ans. Aux 15e et 16e siècles, diverses reconstructions furent entreprises. Le château comprend un donjon et, autour d'une étroite cour jouxtant le donjon, des corps de logis distribués en anneau. La partie Est est élevée d'un étage en briques datant vraisemblablement du 16e siècle. L'ensemble est cantonné, en faces ouest et nord, de quatre tours rondes, et surmonté d'un élément de mâchicoulis à triple rang de corbeaux dont il ne reste que la base.
English translation
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History
The origin of the castle would be linked to the need to protect the Roman aqueduct which supplied Cahors with water, and which was dismantled by the English during the Hundred Years War. In the 15th and 16th centuries, various reconstructions were undertaken. The castle comprises a keep and, around a narrow courtyard adjoining the keep, dwelling blocks distributed in a ring. The East part is raised one storey in bricks dating presumably to the 16th century. The whole is flanked, on the west and north faces, with four round towers, and surmounted by an element of machicolations with triple row of corbels of which only the base remains.
Nearby in the register
- Ruines de la tour de péageédifice fortifiéunder 1 mi
- Maison Issalamaison1 mi
- Église Saint-Barthélémyéglise2 mi
- Palais de Jean XXIIpalais2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.