Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancienne commanderie de Rayssac
Albi, Tarn, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Commanderie de Rayssac (ancienne) : inscription par arrêté du 10 janvier 1928
- Protection dates
- 1928/01/10 : inscrit MH
- Type
- commanderie
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle, 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Albi
- Département
- Tarn
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.90451, 2.19857
- Mérimée reference
- PA00095456
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1742 map "Composite: Languedoc." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Grand corps de logis rectangulaire à deux étages dont l'extrémité sud, probablement tombée en ruines, est remplacée par une partie moderne. La maçonnerie est en pierre de taille appareillée. Une tour flanquante est placée à l'angle nord-ouest. Une tour de même diamètre, accolée à la façade Est qui donne sur cour, est percée d'une porte d'entrée ornée de moulures et contient l'escalier à vis qui dessert les étages. La tour d'angle conserve quelques meurtrières. A l'intérieur, les poutrelles des plafonds conservent des restes de peinture et diverses inscriptions anciennes. Dans une salle de la tour d'angle, les murs sont couverts de peintures frustes où se distinguent les armes de l'ordre du Temple et celles de Toulouse.
English translation
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History
Large rectangular main dwelling with two storeys, the south end of which, probably fallen into ruin, is replaced by a modern section. The masonry is in squared ashlar. A flanking tower is placed at the north-west angle. A tower of the same diameter, attached to the east façade which overlooks the courtyard, is pierced by an entrance door decorated with moulding and contains the spiral staircase which serves the storeys. The corner tower retains a few loopholes. Inside, the ceiling joists retain remnants of paint and various old inscriptions. In a room of the corner tower, the walls are covered with crude paintings in which can be distinguished the arms of the order of the Temple and those of Toulouse.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.