Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ruines du château de Lastours
Rilhac-Lastours, Haute-Vienne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château de Lastours (ruines) (cad. C 155, 156) : inscription par arrêté du 6 août 1956
- Protection dates
- 1956/08/06 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Rilhac-Lastours
- Département
- Haute-Vienne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.64957, 1.12131
- Mérimée reference
- PA00100425
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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 1711 map "Le Gouvernement General De Guinne et Gascogne ...." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le plan cadastral réalisé au début du 19e siècle montre un tracé pentagonal composé de quatre tours rondes, d'un donjon à l'est, rattachés par des murs et des défenses à l'ouest. A la Révolution, le château fut pillé puis démoli et servit, au 19e siècle, de carrière de pierres à bâtir. Il subsiste au nord quelques vestiges de la grosse tour ronde et des murailles ; à l'ouest, les murs et tourelles de défense ; au sud, les deux grosses tours rondes encadrant la porte d'entrée, reliées autrefois à des courtines. A l'est, le donjon du 11e siècle se dresse à 26 mètres, sa partie inférieure étant effondrée ainsi que les murs qui le relient au reste du château. Les fossés étaient encore remplis d'eau à la fin du 19e siècle. Le château ancien a peut-être été reconstruit au 13e siècle.
English translation
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History
The cadastral plan drawn up at the beginning of the 19th century shows a pentagonal layout composed of four round towers, a keep to the east, connected by walls and defences to the west. At the Revolution, the castle was pillaged then demolished and served, in the 19th century, as a quarry for building stone. There remain to the north a few remains of the large round tower and the walls; to the west, the walls and defence turrets; to the south, the two large round towers framing the entrance gate, formerly connected by curtain walls. To the east, the keep of the 11th century stands at 26 metres, its lower part having collapsed as well as the walls connecting it to the rest of the castle. The moats were still filled with water at the end of the 19th century. The old castle may have been rebuilt in the 13th century.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.