Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Restes du château de la Meilleraye
Beaulieu-sous-Parthenay, Deux-Sèvres, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château de la Meilleraye (restes du) : inscription par arrêté du 18 mars 1930
- Protection dates
- 1930/03/18 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Beaulieu-sous-Parthenay
- Département
- Deux-Sèvres
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.57906, -0.19234
- Mérimée reference
- PA00101187
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1607 map "Poictou" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le château formait un quadrilatère entouré de douves pleines d'eau. Un pont en bois donne accès à ce qui fut sans doute la cour d'honneur. A l'opposé, un autre pont donne accès au corps de logis principal. Ce château devait se composer d'une cour centrale entourée de bâtiments, avec corps de logis principal et deux ailes en retour. Les autres parties du quadrilatère étaient formées par des bâtiments de service dont seules les caves subsistent. Le corps de logis principal devait être imposant, construit dans le style du début du 17e siècle, en granit. Au centre, une grande porte encadrée de deux colonnes doriques avec entablement sans décor, devait ouvrir sur les pièces de réception.
English translation
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History
The castle formed a quadrilateral surrounded by water-filled moats. A wooden bridge provides access to what was no doubt the courtyard of honour. Opposite, another bridge provides access to the main dwelling. This castle must have consisted of a central courtyard surrounded by buildings, with main dwelling and two wings in return. The other parts of the quadrilateral were formed by service buildings of which only the cellars remain. The main dwelling must have been imposing, built in the early 17th-century style, in granite. In the centre, a large door framed by two Doric columns with entablature without decoration, must have opened onto the reception rooms.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.