Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Donjon de la Roche-Elie
Messé, Deux-Sèvres, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Donjon de la Roche-Elie : inscription par arrêté du 7 janvier 1943
- Protection dates
- 1943/01/07 : inscrit MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Messé
- Département
- Deux-Sèvres
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.26502, 0.09541
- Mérimée reference
- PA00101272
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1773 map "68 Charroux." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ce donjon serait la base d'une grosse tour carrée de l'ancien château aujourd'hui disparu. La tour est renforcée, aux angles, de tourelles saillantes. Les murs sont percés d'archères et de baies dont les meneaux ont disparu. Une porte en tiers-point ouvre le rez-de-chaussée. A côté de la tour se trouvait une habitation Renaissance.
English translation
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History
This keep would be the base of a large square tower of the old castle now disappeared. The tower is reinforced, at the angles, with projecting turrets. The walls are pierced with arrow slits and bays whose mullions have disappeared. A pointed arch door opens the ground floor. Beside the tower was found a Renaissance dwelling.
Nearby in the register
- Ensemble des deux tumulus à chambres dolméniques, appelés tumulus du Montioutumulus2 mi
- Logis des Chémeraultmaison2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.