Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de Montjourdain
Chassors, Charente, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façades et toitures (cad. C 272) : inscription par arrêté du 7 juin 1968
- Protection dates
- 1968/06/07 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 18e siècle
- Dates
- 1790
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Chassors
- Département
- Charente
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.69742, -0.19561
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104288
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1756 map "Carte de Cassini (c. 1756)" (IGN France — Géoportail).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Corps de bâtiment percé de sept fenêtres par étage, sur les deux façades. Un fronton demi-circulaire surplombe la porte du rez-de-chaussée. Un fronton triangulaire à la manière du 18e siècle, surmonte l'édifice. Une corniche courre tout le long de l'édifice.
English translation
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History
Body of building pierced by seven windows per storey, on both façades. A semi-circular pediment overhangs the door of the ground floor. A triangular pediment in the manner of the 18th century surmounts the building. A cornice runs along the whole length of the building.
Nearby in the register
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- Tumulus et camptumulus1 mi
- Maison natale de François Mitterandmaison1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.