Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château
Pontarion, Creuse, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château : inscription par arrêté du 29 octobre 1941
- Protection dates
- 1941/10/29 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Pontarion
- Département
- Creuse
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.99645, 1.84786
- Mérimée reference
- PA00100132
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Des constructions du 15e siècle reste un grand corps de logis rectangulaire, à trois étages, conservant son couronnement de mâchicoulis. Un escalier circulaire, avec porte au linteau en accolade, garnit la façade sur cour, ainsi qu'une échauguette. Deux tours, dont il ne reste que la base et les amorces, flanquent le logis du côté de la rivière. Un corps de bâtiment limite la cour du côté de la route, conservant également son couronnement de mâchicoulis. A l'opposé, un pan de mur avec des restes d'échauguette sont en ruine, ainsi qu'une porte flanquée de tours.
English translation
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History
From the constructions of the 15th century remains a large rectangular main dwelling, three storeys high, retaining its machicolated crown. A circular staircase, with a door at an ogee lintel, adorns the courtyard façade, as well as a corner turret. Two towers, of which only the base and the beginnings remain, flank the dwelling on the river side. A body of building limits the courtyard on the road side, also retaining its machicolated crown. On the opposite side, a section of wall with remains of corner turret are in ruin, as well as a door flanked by towers.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Blaiseégliseunder 1 mi
- Motte castrale du Creux-du-Renard, dit le Vieux Châteaumotte2 mi
- Église de l'Assomption-de-la-Très-Sainte-Viergeéglise3 mi
- Pont-Péritpont3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.