Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château
Pézènes-les-Mines, Hérault, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façades et toitures, y compris le mur d'enceinte (cad. AB 20, 21) : inscription par arrêté du 9 juillet 1981
- Protection dates
- 1981/07/09 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle, 16e siècle, 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Pézènes-les-Mines
- Département
- Hérault
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.58901, 3.25194
- Mérimée reference
- PA00103663
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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
Situé dans la partie haute du village, le château est ceint par un mur d'enceinte fortifié qui suit les irrégularités du relief. Deux portes ont été aménagées dans ce mur au 17e siècle. Le château se compose de quatre corps de bâtiments enfermant une cour intérieure rectangulaire. Deux portes munies d'archères en permettent l'accès. Elles étaient autrefois protégées par un pont-levis. Deux tours flanquent le château, une rectangulaire au nord et une semi-circulaire au sud. A l'est, faisant corps avec le château, se trouve la chapelle du 12e siècle dont le chevet semble avoir été exhaussé au 14e siècle pour faire office de tour. La porte et quelques baies de cette église romane ont reçu une décoration polychrome par incrustation de basalte.
English translation
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History
Located in the upper part of the village, the castle is encircled by a fortified enclosure wall which follows the irregularities of the relief. Two gates were created in this wall in the 17th century. The castle consists of four buildings enclosing a rectangular interior courtyard. Two gates equipped with arrow slits provide access to it. They were formerly protected by a drawbridge. Two towers flank the castle, one rectangular to the north and one semi-circular to the south. To the east, forming a single body with the castle, is found the chapel of the 12th century whose chevet appears to have been raised in the 14th century to serve as a tower. The door and several openings of this Romanesque church received polychrome decoration by inlay of basalt.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.