Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de Charry
Montcuq, Lot, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façades et toitures (cad. G 126) : inscription par arrêté du 6 octobre 1976
- Protection dates
- 1976/10/06 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle, 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Montcuq
- Département
- Lot
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.31806, 1.22316
- Mérimée reference
- PA00095175
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1781 map "36 Cahors." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Château construit en trois fois. Ce fut d'abord un donjon dont la bâtisse principale était flanquée de deux tours polygonales. Il était cerné d'une enceinte fortifiée, dont il reste la troisième tour, alors non reliée au bâtiment principal, et une barbacane oblongue. Des canonnières défendaient l'accès du puits. Un souterrain reliait la barbacane à l'une des tours du donjon. Une seconde campagne de travaux, au 17e siècle, ajouta le corps de bâtiment à droite de la tour, ainsi que les bâtiments fermant la cour. Au 19e siècle se fit le raccordement entre le bâtiment principal et la tour ronde du rempart. Ce donjon était un relai de feu entre la tour de Montcuq et le donjon de Marcilhac, et assurait la défense de la vallée de Charry.
English translation
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History
Castle built in three phases. It was first a keep whose main building was flanked by two polygonal towers. It was surrounded by a fortified enclosure, of which remain the third tower, then not connected to the main building, and an oblong barbican. Gun ports defended the access to the well. An underground passage connected the barbican to one of the keep's towers. A second campaign of works, in the 17th century, added the building to the right of the tower, as well as the buildings closing the courtyard. In the 19th century the connection was made between the main building and the round tower of the rampart. This keep was a beacon relay between the tower of Montcuq and the keep of Marcilhac, and ensured the defence of the Charry valley.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.