Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Restes du château
Cornil, Corrèze, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château (restes du) : inscription par arrêté du 14 avril 1927
- Protection dates
- 1927/04/14 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Cornil
- Département
- Corrèze
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.21342, 1.69137
- Mérimée reference
- PA00099746
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1711 map "Le Gouvernement General De Guinne et Gascogne ...." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Cornil était, au Moyen-Age, une petite place de guerre. Il y avait au moins deux châteaux, l'un qui se trouvait près du bourg, et l'autre dont il subsiste une tour près de l'église. Ils furent tous deux marqués par les sièges au temps de la Ligue. Sur la hauteur se dressent deux bâtiments carrés, contigus, le plus élevé possédant cinq étages. Une tourelle contre le donjon contenait autrefois l'escalier. Tout l'édifice est garni de mâchicoulis dont les consoles allongées sont divisées en trois ou quatre retraites.
English translation
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History
Cornil was, in the Middle Ages, a small fortified place. There were at least two castles, one which was located near the borough, and the other of which a tower still remains near the church. They were both marked by sieges at the time of the League. On the height stand two square buildings, adjoining, the highest possessing five storeys. A turret against the keep formerly contained the staircase. The entire building is furnished with machicolations whose elongated consoles are divided into three or four setbacks.
Nearby in the register
- église Saint-Étienneégliseunder 1 mi
- église Saint-Étienneéglise1 mi
- Cromlech du Puy de Pauliaccromlech2 mi
- Canal des moines d'Obazinecanal3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.