Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château du Pouyaud
Dignac, Charente, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façades et toitures (à l'exclusion des ailes en retour) (cad. F 697p) : inscription par arrêté du 9 juin 1966
- Protection dates
- 1966/06/09 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle, 16e siècle, 17e siècle, 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Dignac
- Département
- Charente
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.55407, 0.26627
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104353
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1777 map "69 Angouleme." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La tour a été construite au 16e siècle et le reste du château comprend des constructions s'étalant du 15e au 18e siècle. L'ensemble des bâtiments est disposé en fer à cheval. Le donjon carré est en gros appareil du 16e siècle, mâchicoulé. Une des façades des 17e-18e siècles, est percée de fenêtres à petits bois avec porte à parements, aux sculptures moulurées, et surmontée d'un fronton reposant sur deux pilastres cannelés engagés.
English translation
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History
The tower was built in the 16th century and the rest of the castle comprises buildings spanning from the 15th to 18th century. The whole of the buildings is arranged in a horseshoe. The square keep is in large ashlar of the 16th century, machicolated. One of the façades of the 17th-18th centuries is pierced with small-paned windows with moulded frame door, and surmounted by a pediment resting on two fluted engaged pilasters.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Cybardégliseunder 1 mi
- Château de la Tour du Breuilchâteau1 mi
- Église Saint-Aignan-de-Torsacéglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.