Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ruines du château de Lauzières
Octon, Hérault, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château de Lauzières (ruines) (cad. 172 à 175) : inscription par arrêté du 14 décembre 1942
- Protection dates
- 1942/12/14 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 14e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Octon
- Département
- Hérault
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.66130, 3.29347
- Mérimée reference
- PA00103622
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 — 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
Du château subsistent la porte d'accès en partie effondrée, la partie inférieure du donjon, deux tours d'enceinte, diverses salles en rez-de-chaussée, une cuisine avec les débris d'une grande cheminée, un escalier en vis et sa porte d'accès du 14e siècle, une série de fenêtres du 15e siècle. L'escalier aboutit au chemin de ronde dont il reste des pans de murs.
English translation
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History
From the castle survive the access gate partly collapsed, the lower part of the keep, two towers of the enceinte, various ground-floor rooms, a kitchen with the debris of a large fireplace, a spiral staircase and its access door from the 14th century, a series of 15th-century windows. The staircase leads to the wall-walk of which some sections of wall remain.
Nearby in the register
- Ensemble dolménique dit de Toucoudolmenunder 1 mi
- Chapelle Notre-Dame de Roubignacchapelleunder 1 mi
- Ruines de l'ancienne église Saint-Pierreéglise2 mi
- Châteauchâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.