Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château du Bazaneix
Saint-Fréjoux, Corrèze, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Le château (cad. AM 43) : inscription par arrêté du 20 octobre 1987
- Protection dates
- 1987/10/20 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Saint-Fréjoux
- Département
- Corrèze
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.55894, 2.37977
- Mérimée reference
- PA00099857
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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 1753 map "Marche, Limosin, Auvergne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Aucun document précis ne vient éclairer les origines de ce château mentionné au 14e siècle. L'édifice est entouré de douves circulaires alimentées d'eau vive. Il est constitué d'un corps de logis rectangulaire avec tours rondes aux angles sud-ouest et sud-est, et tour circulaire d'escalier devant la façade principale.
English translation
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History
No precise document clarifies the origins of this castle mentioned in the 14th century. The edifice is surrounded by circular moats fed with running water. It is constituted of a rectangular main dwelling with round towers at the south-west and south-east angles, and a circular staircase tower facing the main façade.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.