Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Donjon
Curçay-sur-Dive, Vienne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Donjon (cad. B 83) : classement par arrêté du 28 octobre 1965
- Protection dates
- 1965/10/28 : classé MH
- Type
- édifice fortifié
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- le Bourg
- Commune
- Curçay-sur-Dive
- Département
- Vienne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.01272, -0.05616
- Mérimée reference
- PA00105445
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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
Commencé à la fin du 14e siècle, ce château est édifié pour défendre la région contre les Anglais. Le corps de logis fut détruit au cours des guerres de Religion. Tour carrée, l'ancien donjon était raccordé, avant les guerres de Religion, à un édifice plus vaste dont il reste des traces de l'accrochement, une cheminée 15e ainsi que la base d'une tour ronde. Echauguettes aux angles, corbeaux et mâchicoulis. Un escalier à vis dessert l'intérieur, voûté sur croisées d'ogives.
English translation
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History
Begun at the end of the 14th century, this castle is built to defend the region against the English. The main dwelling was destroyed during the Wars of Religion. Square tower, the former keep was connected, before the Wars of Religion, to a larger building of which traces of the junction remain, a 15th-century fireplace as well as the base of a round tower. Machicolations at the angles, corbels and machicolations. A spiral staircase serves the interior, vaulted on rib vaults.
Nearby in the register
- Restes de l'église Saint-Pierreégliseunder 1 mi
- Pont gallo-romain dit Pont de la Reine-Blanchepont1 mi
- Château de Ternaychâteau2 mi
- Manoir de Savoiemanoir2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.