Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de Verrières
Bournand, Vienne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château de Verrières : inscription par arrêté du 2 février 1931
- Protection dates
- 1931/02/02 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle, 15e siècle, 16e siècle, 19e siècle
- Dates
- 1860
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Bournand
- Département
- Vienne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.04899, 0.05204
- Mérimée reference
- PA00105362
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1579 map "(28) Andegavensium." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Une construction moderne a remplacé, vers 1860, l'ancienne forteresse féodale. L'ancienne construction subit des attaques catholiques et protestantes au cours des guerres de Religion. Le château présente une enceinte flanquée de grosses tours rondes, terminées par des corbeaux et surmontées de toitures coniques. La porte d'entrée fortifiée (15e siècle), en plein cintre, est surmontée d'un petit corps de bâtiment en encorbellement, flanqué de tours rondes.
English translation
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History
A modern construction replaced, around 1860, the old feudal fortress. The old structure suffered Catholic and Protestant attacks during the Wars of Religion. The castle presents an enclosure flanked by large round towers, terminated by corbels and topped with conical roofs. The fortified entrance door (15th century), in round arch, is surmounted by a small building in corbel, flanked by round towers.
Nearby in the register
- Ancienne commanderie des Moulinscommanderie1 mi
- Dolmendolmen1 mi
- Dolmen de Bernazay en grèsdolmen2 mi
- Château du Bois-Gourmondchâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.