Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de Monismes
Bessines-sur-Gartempe, Haute-Vienne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château de Monismes (cad. E 1441 à 1445, 1451, 1452, 1583, 1585, 1587, 1589, 1601) : inscription par arrêté du 17 janvier 1992
- Protection dates
- 1992/01/17 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- Monismes
- Commune
- Bessines-sur-Gartempe
- Département
- Haute-Vienne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.06773, 1.31867
- Mérimée reference
- PA00100526
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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
La famille de Razes fit construire le château au milieu du 15e siècle. Il fut restauré en 1736 et une chapelle y fut bâtie en 1739. La terre et le château furent vendus à la Révolution. En 1860, les terres furent revendue au détail et le château démoli. Il en reste les vestiges d'une tour et les douves. Au début du 14e siècle, il comportait un corps de bâtiment central flanqué de deux tours circulaires, entouré de fossés de plan rectangulaire. Dans le fond des douves ont été trouvées des sculptures gothiques représentant des faces humaines et des animaux. Elles ornaient le rampant d'un mur-pignon. Deux anges portent un blason.
English translation
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History
The family of Razes had the castle built in the middle of the 15th century. It was restored in 1736 and a chapel was built there in 1739. The land and castle were sold during the Revolution. In 1860, the lands were resold in detail and the castle demolished. There remain the vestiges of a tower and the moats. At the beginning of the 14th century, it comprised a central building flanked by two circular towers, surrounded by rectangular-plan moats. In the bottom of the moats were found Gothic sculptures representing human faces and animals. They adorned the rampant of a gable wall. Two angels bear a coat of arms.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Pardouxéglise2 mi
- Eglise paroissiale de la Croix-Glorieuseéglise3 mi
- Motte castrale dite Le Châteauchâteau3 mi
- Ensemble rural de la famille Berryédifice agricole3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.