Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancien manoir
Belcaire, Aude, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Portail d'entrée sur le jardin : inscription par arrêté du 10 avril 1948
- Protection dates
- 1948/04/10 : inscrit MH
- Type
- manoir
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 17e siècle
- Dates
- 1695
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Belcaire
- Département
- Aude
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 42.81629, 1.95928
- Mérimée reference
- PA00102554
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1637 map "Aragon and Catalonia. Aragonia et Catalonia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La justice appartient au roi jusqu'en 1718. Il semble que ce petit manoir ait été construit par des seigneurs particuliers, bourgeois enrichis ayant acquis du roi une directe. L'édifice est flanqué de deux tourelles d'angle circulaires. La petite porte d'entrée sur le jardin, seule baie ancienne n'ayant pas été modifiée, porte un écusson échancré avec la date 1695. Les deux lobes inférieurs de l'écusson sont ornés chacun d'une étoile à cinq branches. L'encadrement de l'arc surbaissé est mouluré en doucine. L'entrée est encadrée par des pilastres nus, maigres, avec impostes. Au-dessus de l'entablement, deux petits massifs supportent deux petites boules.
English translation
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History
Justice belonged to the king until 1718. It seems that this small manor was built by private lords, enriched bourgeois who had acquired from the king a seigneury. The building is flanked by two circular corner turrets. The small entrance door on the garden, the only ancient opening which has not been modified, bears a notched escutcheon with the date 1695. The two lower lobes of the escutcheon are each adorned with a five-pointed star. The framing of the depressed arch is moulded with a cyma. The entrance is framed by bare, thin pilasters, with impost blocks. Above the entablature, two small solid masses support two small spheres.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.