Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ruines du château Chalusset
Saint-Jean-Ligoure, Haute-Vienne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Château de Chalusset (ruines) : classement par liste de 1875
- Protection dates
- 1875 : classé MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle, 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété du département
- Commune
- Saint-Jean-Ligoure
- Département
- Haute-Vienne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.73316, 1.31163
- Mérimée reference
- PA00100255
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1703 map "Map of the Geography of Ancient France). (continued.)" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'ensemble du château aurait été bâti par l'évêque Eustorge au 13e siècle. En 1306, il fut cédé au roi qui le remit à Henri de Sully. En 1369, il subit l'assaut des Anglais. Pendant les guerres de Religion, il servit de refuge aux Huguenots. En 1593, les bourgeois de Limoges obtinrent son démantèlement. Au sommet de l'éperon, le château haut était constitué d'un grand quadrilatère de courtines, armé de tours cylindriques datant des 13e et 14e siècles. Au milieu du quadrilatère se dresse le donjon roman rectangulaire. Du château bas, qui occupait les dernières terrasses du promontoire, subsiste le donjon roman carré.
English translation
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History
The whole of the castle would have been built by bishop Eustorge in the 13th century. In 1306, it was ceded to the king who remitted it to Henri de Sully. In 1369, it underwent assault by the English. During the Wars of Religion, it served as a refuge for the Huguenots. In 1593, the townspeople of Limoges obtained its dismantling. At the summit of the spur, the upper castle was constituted by a large quadrilateral of curtain walls, armed with cylindrical towers dating from the 13th and 14th centuries. In the middle of the quadrilateral stands the rectangular Romanesque keep. Of the lower castle, which occupied the last terraces of the promontory, remains the square Romanesque keep.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Mathurinéglise2 mi
- Château du Reynouchâteau2 mi
- Église Saint-Pierreéglise2 mi
- Ancienne abbayeabbaye2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.