Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de Lienesse
Neuilly-en-Dun, Cher, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Pigeonnier (cad. C 166) : inscription par arrêté du 25 octobre 1971
- Protection dates
- 1971/10/25 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 1ère moitié 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété d'une société privée
- Lieu-dit
- Liénesse
- Commune
- Neuilly-en-Dun
- Département
- Cher
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.78389, 2.77664
- Mérimée reference
- PA00096853
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1632 map "Carte du Pais de Bourbonois." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'origine de la terre de Lienesse remonte au 12e siècle. Le château se compose d'un ensemble de bâtiments construits à trois époques différentes. A la fin du 15e siècle, existait un bâtiment fortifié par deux tours aux angles et présentant une tour médiane servant de cage d'escalier. Au début du 16e siècle, un bâtiment orné de sculptures Renaissance fut accolé au pignon sud de la première construction dont la tour d'angle sud-ouest est abattue. Le château a été entièrement restauré à la fin du 19e siècle, sous la direction de l'architecture Camus. ££L'ensemble était composé d'une cour carrée bordée en partie par des courtines, le tout entouré de fossés dont il ne reste plus trace. Le logis de l'aile ouest est flanqué au nord et au sud de deux tourelles et, côté douves et cour, d'une galerie. Cette dernière est constituée, au premier étage, de trois travées rectangulaires limitées par quatre colonnettes prismatiques et torses, à chapiteaux carrés. Le colombier circulaire est orné, à sa partie supérieure, de deux rangs de cordons portant chacun trois fenêtres accostées de pilastres à chapiteaux variés (volutes, animaux, rinceaux...). A l'intérieur, des alvéoles en poterie servaient de nids. La charpente conserve encore l'échelle tournante.
English translation
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History
The origins of the land of Lienesse date back to the 12th century. The castle comprises a set of buildings constructed at three different periods. At the end of the 15th century, there existed a fortified building with two towers at the angles and presenting a central tower serving as a staircase cage. At the beginning of the 16th century, a building adorned with Renaissance sculptures was attached to the south gable of the first construction, of which the south-west corner tower is demolished. The castle was entirely restored at the end of the 19th century, under the direction of architect Camus. The whole was composed of a square courtyard bordered in part by curtain walls, all surrounded by moats of which no trace remains. The main dwelling of the west wing is flanked to the north and south by two tourelles and, on the side facing the moats and courtyard, by a gallery. The latter is constituted, on the first storey, of three rectangular bays limited by four prismatic and twisted colonnettes, with square capitals. The circular dovecote is adorned, at its upper part, with two rows of mouldings each carrying three windows flanked by pilasters with varied capitals (volutes, animals, rinceaux...). Inside, pottery sockets served as nests. The roof structure still preserves the rotating ladder.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.