Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de La Bonnetière
La Chaussée, Vienne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- La fuye sise dans la cour (cad. E 855) : inscription par arrêté du 29 septembre 1987
- Protection dates
- 1987/09/29 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- La Chaussée
- Département
- Vienne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.89212, 0.09441
- Mérimée reference
- PA00105407
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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
Au 13e siècle, le château devait être une forteresse protégée par des bâtiments en longueur, assortis de tours à leurs extrémités. Quatre traces de tours sont encore visibles. Deux autres tours sont accolées au corps de logis sur l'élévation ouest. Au nord et au sud du corps de logis, se trouvent deux adjonctions du 19e siècle en retour d'équerre. Au sud de cet ensemble se trouvent divers bâtiments d'exploitation agricole. Dans la cour, le pigeonnier octogonal, pouvant dater du 17e siècle, est renforcé par des contreforts. Sa toiture repose sur des consoles. Un petit escalier en descente permet d'accéder à l'intérieur de cette fuye dont le sol est en contrebas par rapport au niveau de la cour. Tous les éléments sont encore en place : boulins, échelle pivotante...
English translation
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History
In the 13th century, the castle must have been a fortress protected by long buildings, equipped with towers at their ends. Four traces of towers are still visible. Two other towers are attached to the main dwelling on the west elevation. To the north and south of the main dwelling are two additions from the 19th century forming right angles. To the south of this ensemble are various agricultural outbuildings. In the courtyard, the octagonal dovecote, which may date from the 17th century, is reinforced by buttresses. Its roof rests on corbels. A small descending staircase provides access to the interior of this dovecote whose floor is below the level of the courtyard. All the elements are still in place: nesting holes, pivoting ladder...
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.