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Logis de la Chaussée

Gourgé, Deux-Sèvres, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Logis de la Chaussée (cad. AZ 41, 47, 178, 179) : inscription par arrêté du 23 octobre 1992
Protection dates
1992/10/23 : inscrit MH
Type
maison
Main period of construction
Moyen Age, 15e siècle
Ownership
propriété privée
Commune
Gourgé
Département
Deux-Sèvres
Region
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Country
France
Coordinates
46.72799, -0.13561
Mérimée reference
PA00101427

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1579 map "(28) Andegavensium." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

La seigneurie est mentionnée dès 1120. Le logis du 15e siècle est un bâtiment rectangulaire flanqué, à l'ouest, d'une grosse tour circulaire tronquée d'un étage et, à l'est, d'une échauguette sur consoles, transformée plus tard en pigeonnier. Les façades sont percées de fenêtres à meneaux. Deux bretêches, portées par des consoles et ornées de trilobes, défendent les accès primitifs. L'intérieur conserve un escalier en vis dont la cage carrée est entièrement en oeuvre, ainsi que des cheminées médiévales.

English translation

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The seigneury is mentioned from 1120 onwards. The 15th-century main dwelling is a rectangular building flanked, to the west, by a large truncated circular tower missing one storey and, to the east, by a machicolation on corbels, later transformed into a dovecote. The façades are pierced with mullioned windows. Two bretèches, carried by corbels and decorated with trefoils, defend the primitive accesses. The interior preserves a spiral staircase whose square cage is entirely built in stone, as well as medieval fireplaces.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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