Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château des Pins
Les Pins, Charente, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château des Pins (cad. B 1090) : inscription par arrêté du 3 avril 1958
- Protection dates
- 1958/04/03 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 15e siècle, 1er quart 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Les Pins
- Département
- Charente
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.82090, 0.39032
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104455
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
Château reconstruit après la guerre de Cent ans. L'édifice se compose d'une grosse tour carrée. A la base de la tour, côté est, se trouvent trois petits contreforts. La maçonnerie jusqu'à hauteur des contreforts paraît ancienne et a peut-être appartenu à une tour romane. Du côté nord, une construction était adossée à la tour, sans doute une tour moins importante, en ruines. L'ensemble porte la marque de la fin du 15e ou du début du 16e siècle. A l'angle sud-ouest, tourelle cylindrique contenant l'escalier à vis. La tour carrée et sa tourelle sont couronnées par des créneaux et des mâchicoulis sur consoles.
English translation
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History
Castle rebuilt after the Hundred Years War. The building consists of a large square tower. At the base of the tower, on the east side, are three small buttresses. The masonry up to the height of the buttresses appears ancient and may have belonged to a Romanesque tower. On the north side, a building was leaning against the tower, probably a smaller tower, in ruins. The whole bears the mark of the end of the 15th or beginning of the 16th century. At the south-west corner, a cylindrical turret containing the spiral staircase. The square tower and its turret are crowned with crenellations and machicolations on corbels.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.