Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château, ancienne maison des Templiers
Cazouls-d'Hérault, Hérault, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Le château, en totalité, y compris le parc et sa clôture (cad. AB 58, 69, 303, 304) : inscription par arrêté du 27 juin 2011
- Protection dates
- 2011/06/27 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle, 17e siècle, 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Address
- Marronniers (allée des)
- Commune
- Cazouls-d'Hérault
- Département
- Hérault
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.50640, 3.45658
- Mérimée reference
- PA00103420
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — Géoportail
3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1778 map "57. Lodeve." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le château est une ancienne commanderie du Temple, dont les fondations remontent au 13ème siècle. Des modifications sont apportées aux 15ème, 17ème et 18ème siècles. Autour d'un quadrilatère, plusieurs corps de bâtiments d'époques différentes s'organisent : deux étages plus un étage de combles sur un rez-de-chaussée des 15ème-16ème siècles et du 17ème siècle. Au 18ème siècle, un corps ouest, en retour d'équerre, est ajouté côté jardin régnant sur une haute terrasse construite au-dessus des caves voûtées d'arêtes. La façade principale se situe à l'est, la porte actuelle semble dater du 19ème siècle. La tour ronde demi hors-uvre à l'angle des façades est et nord, est en grande partie bâtie en basalte et est couronnée de mâchicoulis qui pourraient remonter au 14ème ou 15ème siècle. A l'ouest, une tourelle d'angle est suspendue sur un encorbellement à quatre ressauts. La chapelle castrale est accolée au sud; un clocher s'élève sur le mur pignon est. Les communs à l'ouest ont disparu mais l'enceinte a subsisté en partie, entourant un parc arboré.
English translation
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History
The castle is a former commandery of the Temple, whose foundations date back to the 13th century. Modifications are made in the 15th, 17th and 18th centuries. Around a quadrilateral, several building structures of different periods are arranged: two storeys plus a roof-space storey on a ground floor of the 15th-16th centuries and the 17th century. In the 18th century, a western structure, in a return of square, is added on the garden side overlooking a high terrace built above the rib-vaulted cellars. The main façade is on the east side, the current door seems to date from the 19th century. The round semi-projecting tower at the angle of the east and north façades is built largely in basalt and is crowned with machicolations which could date back to the 14th or 15th century. To the west, a corner turret is suspended on a corbel with four steps. The castle chapel is adjoined to the south; a bell tower rises on the east gable wall. The outbuildings to the west have disappeared but the enclosure has been partly preserved, surrounding a treed park.
Nearby in the register
- Château de Lavagnacchâteauunder 1 mi
- Châteauchâteau1 mi
- Moulin de Roquemengardemoulin1 mi
- Cave coopérative vinicoleétablissement vinicole2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.