Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de Paulin
Paulinet, Tarn, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château de Paulin (cad. DT 17) : inscription par arrêté du 2 janvier 1986
- Protection dates
- 1986/01/02 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle, 16e siècle, 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Paulinet
- Département
- Tarn
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.85242, 2.40630
- Mérimée reference
- PA00095614
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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
Du 12e au 14e siècle, la seigneurie appartient aux vicomtes de Lautrec. Occupé par les Anglais en 1331, le château fut racheté en 1384. Le château est construit directement sur le rocher. Il comprend deux parties grossièrement perpendiculaires et assez mal reliées car les étages ne correspondent pas. L'aile ouest, la plus ancienne (15e-16e siècle) se termine par une tour. La porte, refaite au 18e siècle, ouvre sur un couloir. La partie occidentale de cette aile comporte, hormis la tour, des caves voûtées et un escalier dont un palier est couvert de voûtes d'ogives bombées. La partie droite a conservé, au premier étage, une cheminée gothique. Plusieurs canonnières sont aménagées dans la façade sud. Une canonnière est également visible dans une construction ruinée, au sud-ouest du château. L'aile sud a été reprise et presque entièrement reconstruite au 19e siècle.
English translation
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History
From the 12th to the 14th century, the seigneury belonged to the viscounts of Lautrec. Occupied by the English in 1331, the castle was bought back in 1384. The castle is built directly on the rock. It comprises two parts roughly perpendicular and rather poorly connected because the storeys do not correspond. The west wing, the oldest (15th-16th century) terminates in a tower. The door, remade in the 18th century, opens onto a corridor. The western part of this wing comprises, besides the tower, vaulted cellars and a staircase one landing of which is covered with domed rib vaults. The right part has retained, on the first storey, a Gothic fireplace. Several gun embrasures are arranged in the south façade. A gun embrasure is also visible in a ruined construction, to the south-west of the castle. The south wing was taken up and almost entirely rebuilt in the 19th century.