Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ruines du château
Luc, Lozère, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château (ruines) (cad. D 268) : inscription par arrêté du 10 février 1986
- Protection dates
- 1986/02/10 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 6e siècle, 10e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Luc
- Département
- Lozère
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.65215, 3.88910
- Mérimée reference
- PA00103838
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IGN France — GéoportailDavid 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 1843 map "Carte de l'Etat-Major 1:40,000 (1820-1866)" (IGN France — Géoportail).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Edifice mentionné comme fortification au 6e siècle. Il en subsiste un pan de mur, le reste d'une tour à deux étages, des pans de mur d'enceinte, un bâtiment appelé "la prison" du fait de son absence de fenêtre et de son système de fermeture extérieur, un puits, trois piliers qui sont les restes d'une tour d'habitation ou d'une barbacane et un grand bâtiment rectangulaire. La tradition locale désigne ce dernier comme église du château. Les murs de cet édifice présentent des assises en "opus spicatum" qui pourraient le faire remonter au 6e siècle.
English translation
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History
Building mentioned as a fortification in the 6th century. There remain a section of wall, the remains of a two-storey tower, sections of enclosure wall, a building called "the prison" because of its lack of windows and its external closing system, a well, three pillars which are the remains of a residential tower or barbican and a large rectangular building. Local tradition designates the latter as the castle church. The walls of this building present courses in "opus spicatum" which could date it to the 6th century.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Pierreégliseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.