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Château de la Garde

Salignac-sur-Charente, Charente-Maritime, France

The record

Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
Protection
inscrit MH partiellement
Extent of protection
Façades et toitures du château ; fuie (cad. C 597, 599) : inscription par arrêté du 16 décembre 1987
Protection dates
1987/12/16 : inscrit MH
Type
château
Main period of construction
17e siècle
Dates
1610
Ownership
propriété d'une société privée
Commune
Salignac-sur-Charente
Département
Charente-Maritime
Region
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Country
France
Coordinates
45.66973, -0.42037
Mérimée reference
PA00105267

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1607 map "Poictou" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Un domaine de la Garde existait déjà au Moyen Age, lequel tirait sa richesse du vignoble. L'édifice actuel fut construit au 17e siècle, achevé après 1650. Le corps de logis est allongé et flanqué de deux tours carrées au sud, et de deux tourelles en surplomb aux angles de la façade nord sur cour. Les cinq lucarnes du comble ainsi que la porte d'entrée, sont datées de 1610. La façade sur cour concentre le décor sculpté (frontons à acrotères, pilastres cannelés...). A l'angle nord-ouest de la cour intérieure, une fuie circulaire à fronton a conservé tout son système de boulins et échelle tournante.

English translation

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An estate of La Garde already existed in the Middle Ages, which drew its wealth from the vineyard. The current building was constructed in the 17th century, completed after 1650. The main dwelling is elongated and flanked by two square towers to the south, and two overhanging turrets at the angles of the north façade on the courtyard. The five dormers of the roof space as well as the entrance door are dated 1610. The façade on the courtyard concentrates the sculptured decoration (pediments with acroteria, fluted pilasters...). At the north-west angle of the inner courtyard, a circular dovecote with pediment has preserved its entire system of nesting holes and rotating ladder.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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