Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château du Travet
Labastide-Saint-Georges, Tarn, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Pigeonnier : inscription par arrêté du 24 janvier 1952
- Protection dates
- 1952/01/24 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 1er quart 17e siècle
- Dates
- 1614
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Labastide-Saint-Georges
- Département
- Tarn
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.69777, 1.82416
- Mérimée reference
- PA00095572
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 1636 map "Aquitaniae descriptio" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le pigeonnier fait partie du domaine du château du Travet, résidence d'été des évêques de Castres. Le rez-de-chaussée est sur piliers, avec tourelle centrale dans laquelle se trouve l'escalier d'accès à l'étage. Le haut du rez-de-chaussée est voûté avec nervures.
English translation
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History
The dovecot is part of the estate of the castle of Travet, summer residence of the bishops of Castres. The ground floor is on pillars, with central tower in which is found the access staircase to the upper floor. The top of the ground floor is vaulted with ribs.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Alainégliseunder 1 mi
- Pont sur l'Agoutpontunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-François, ancienne église du couvent des Cordelierségliseunder 1 mi
- Maison dite " Maison Pradier ", due à l'architecte Pierre Debeauxmaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.