Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château
Barbezières, Charente, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château : inscription par arrêté du 27 février 1925
- Protection dates
- 1925/02/27 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Barbezières
- Département
- Charente
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.91157, -0.09022
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104237
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1711 map "Le Gouvernement General De Guinne et Gascogne ...." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Cet édifice du 15e siècle se compose d'un bâtiment central, avec pignons sur les façades est et ouest, et flanqué à l'angle sud-ouest d'une tour dérasée. A la façade sud, est accolé un pavillon qui sert d'entrée au château et qui renferme un escalier tournant en pierre. Une grosse tour cylindrique flanque l'angle sud-ouest. Façade nord avec tour carrée, ronde à l'intérieur, contenant l'escalier en vis. En arrivant au sommet, une petite tourelle en encorbellement renferme la vis en pierre qui conduisait jusqu'aux combles. A chaque extrémité de la construction, grands pignons avec crochets et fleurons. A l'intérieur, des caves voûtées s'étendent sous le château. Ce dernier est séparé par une cour des anciens bâtiments, écuries et autres.
English translation
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History
This 15th-century building comprises a central building, with gables on the east and west façades, and flanked at the south-west angle by a razed tower. On the south façade is attached a pavilion which serves as the entrance to the castle and which contains a turning stone staircase. A large cylindrical tower flanks the south-west angle. North façade with square tower, round inside, containing the spiral staircase. On reaching the top, a small corbelled turret contains the spiral stone staircase which led as far as the roof space. At each extremity of the building, large gables with crockets and fleurons. Inside, vaulted cellars extend under the castle. The latter is separated by a courtyard from the old buildings, stables and others.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.