Ancien château de Pujols

English translation

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History

Rectangular enceinte devoid of towers, surrounded by moats on three sides and, formerly by a marsh on the fourth. Of this enceinte there remains the entire north wall in elevation (except for the crenellation), the beginning of the eastern wall and the western wall. The keep stands towards the centre of the enceinte. It comprises, on the ground floor, a large room with a smooth barrel vault; on the first floor, a room which was covered by a wooden ceiling now lost; another on the second floor. The first-floor room communicated directly with the outside by a door with a white marble lintel, which a flying footbridge allowed to be cut off from the external staircase. Two large niches in round arch set in the south and north walls served as wall cupboards. On the north face of the keep, near the west angle, was, from the outset, grafted a demi-round turret, enclosing a spiral staircase now destroyed, which gave access to the rooms of the first and second floors and appears to have communicated by a destroyed curtain wall with residential buildings of which the ruins are still visible. In the thickness of the north wall of the keep, a small staircase led to the platform of the third floor.