Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancien château
Jouqueviel, Tarn, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Tour carrée : inscription par arrêté du 13 juillet 1927
- Protection dates
- 1927/07/13 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Jouqueviel
- Département
- Tarn
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.19184, 2.14781
- Mérimée reference
- PA00095568
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
Tour plantée sur un étroit rocher, accessible uniquement du côté du second fossé qui servait de défense au château dont il ne reste que quelques pans de mur. L'édifice était percé par quelques petites fenêtres. A chaque angle se trouvent les restes d'un pilier.
English translation
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History
Tower planted on a narrow rock, accessible only from the side of the second ditch which served as defence to the château of which only a few sections of wall remain. The edifice was pierced by a few small windows. At each angle are found the remains of a pillar.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.