Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Donjon de Gouzon
Chauvigny, Vienne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Le donjon : classement par liste de 1889
- Protection dates
- 1889 : classé MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- 11e siècle, 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Chauvigny
- Département
- Vienne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.57071, 0.64873
- Mérimée reference
- PA00105411
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 "Carte du Gouvernement d'Orleanois" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Cet édifice, dont les parties les plus anciennes doivent remonter au 11e siècle, constitue le seul vestige d'un important château des 11e et 12e siècles. Il se présente sous la forme d'un quadrilatère de murs d'environ 20 mètres de hauteur, totalement vide et sans couverture.
English translation
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History
This building, whose oldest parts must date to the 11th century, constitutes the sole vestige of an important château of the 11th and 12th centuries. It presents itself in the form of a quadrilateral of walls approximately 20 metres high, completely empty and without roof.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Pierreégliseunder 1 mi
- Château d'Harcourtchâteauunder 1 mi
- Château baronial ou des Evêques de Poitierschâteauunder 1 mi
- Église Notre-Dameégliseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.