Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château des Fours
Cumont, Tarn-et-Garonne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château des Fours (cad. B 366 à 368) : inscription par arrêté du 17 septembre 1964
- Protection dates
- 1964/09/17 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle, 16e siècle
- Dates
- 1540
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Cumont
- Département
- Tarn-et-Garonne
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.85493, 0.91248
- Mérimée reference
- PA00095741
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesBibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1777 map "37 Montauban." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ce château aurait été le berceau de Xaintrailles, compagnon d'armes de Jeanne d'Arc. C'est un bâtiment rectangulaire flanqué de quatre échauguettes aux angles. Il est éclairé par des fenêtres à meneaux, celles de la façade sud paraissant plus anciennes que la façade nord, qui sont armées de pilastres cannelés et surmontées d'un fronton triangulaire. Un seconde étage devait exister autrefois. Sont encore visibles les traces de reprise en brique à la partie supérieure d'une échauguette et la corniche génoise paraît récente. Le bâtiment paraît de la fin du 15e siècle et a été très remanié vers 1540 pour la façade nord, laquelle présente un aspect nettement Renaissance.
English translation
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History
This castle is said to have been the birthplace of Xaintrailles, companion-in-arms of Joan of Arc. It is a rectangular building flanked by four watch turrets at the corners. It is lit by mullioned windows, those of the south facade appearing older than the north facade, which are armed with fluted pilasters and surmounted by a triangular pediment. A second storey must have existed formerly. Still visible are the traces of brick repairs at the upper part of a watch turret and the Genoese cornice appears recent. The building appears to be from the late 15th century and was greatly altered around 1540 for the north facade, which presents a distinctly Renaissance aspect.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.