Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de Grugnac
Sousceyrac, Lot, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façades et toitures (cad. AK 99) : inscription par arrêté du 30 mai 1989
- Protection dates
- 1989/05/30 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Sousceyrac
- Département
- Lot
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.88518, 2.02493
- Mérimée reference
- PA00095294
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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
Ancienne forteresse bâtie au 15e siècle par les vicomtes de Turenne pour surveiller la fauconnerie du duc de Luynes. L'édifice de plan quadrangulaire est flanqué au nord de deux tours rondes, et d'une troisième dans l'axe de la façade principale. L'ensemble est couronné d'un chemin de ronde avec mâchicoulis sur consoles. A l'intérieur, les étages sont desservis par l'escalier à vis logé dans la tour sud. Chaque niveau comporte une pièce unique. Le rez-de-chaussée abrite la cuisine et la salle-à-manger. Le premier étage est occupé par un grand salon. Les chambres sont situées dans les tours et le bâtiment accolé au nord.
English translation
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History
Former fortress built in the 15th century by the viscounts of Turenne to watch over the falconry of the duc de Luynes. The building with quadrangular plan is flanked to the north by two round towers, and a third in the axis of the main façade. The whole is crowned with a path of round with machicolations on corbels. Inside, the storeys are served by the spiral staircase housed in the south tower. Each level comprises a single room. The ground floor houses the kitchen and the dining room. The first floor is occupied by a large salon. The bedrooms are situated in the towers and the building adjoining to the north.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.