Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château
Rioux, Charente-Maritime, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façades et toitures ; douves ; pont (cad. A 2103) : inscription par arrêté du 5 octobre 1965
- Protection dates
- 1965/10/05 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle, 17e siècle, 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Address
- A 1 km 500 au Nord du bourg
- Commune
- Rioux
- Département
- Charente-Maritime
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.64917, -0.70808
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104859
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 1714 map "Bourdelois du Perigord." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Grand corps de logis flanqué de deux tours carrées rondes, au nord et au sud, et d'une tour carrée plus modeste au centre de la façade est. Grande terrasse à l'ouest, entourée d'anciennes douves. Armes des De Beaumont au-dessus de la porte d'entrée, propriétaires jusqu'au début du 14e siècle.
English translation
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History
Large main dwelling flanked by two round square towers, to the north and south, and a more modest square tower at the centre of the east façade. Large terrace to the west, surrounded by old moats. Arms of the De Beaumont above the entrance door, owners until the early 14th century.
Nearby in the register
- Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomptionégliseunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Martinéglise2 mi
- Église Saint-Trojanéglise2 mi
- Ecoleécole2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.