Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château
Roquevidal, Tarn, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château : inscription par arrêté du 8 septembre 1943
- Protection dates
- 1943/09/08 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle, 15e siècle, 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Roquevidal
- Département
- Tarn
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.62464, 1.87879
- Mérimée reference
- PA00095626
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IGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1843 map "Carte de l'Etat-Major 1:40,000 (1820-1866)" (IGN France — Géoportail).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Edifice de plan carré, cantonné de tours rondes aux angles. Construction en calcaire et grès. Façade richement ornée de croisées Renaissance. Au centre, la porte d'entrée est surmontée de deux fenêtres. Au premier, deux grandes baies à croisées possèdent des piédroits formés de colonnes ioniennes engagées.
English translation
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History
Building of square plan, flanked by round towers at the angles. Construction in limestone and sandstone. Facade richly adorned with Renaissance cross-windows. At the centre, the entrance door is surmounted by two windows. On the first floor, two large openings with cross-windows have jambs formed of engaged Ionic columns.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.