Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de Vaucour
Leignes-sur-Fontaine, Vienne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Les façades et les toitures (cad. B 493) : inscription par arrêté du 1er juin 1973
- Protection dates
- 1973/06/01 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- Moyen Age
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Leignes-sur-Fontaine
- Département
- Vienne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.52668, 0.74957
- Mérimée reference
- PA00105488
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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
Edifice de la fin du Moyen-âge, constitué d'un massif central, de plan carré, avec, aux angles, quatre massifs semblables, chacun étant formé de quatre côtés plus petits. A la jonction entre les massifs d'angle et le massif central, vers l'intérieur, sont des saillies en forme de console avec une partie rectiligne, la partie inférieure ouverte servant peut-être d'évacuation.
English translation
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History
Building from the late Middle Ages, consisting of a central massive structure, of square plan, with, at the corners, four similar massive structures, each formed of four smaller sides. At the junction between the corner massifs and the central massif, towards the interior, are projections in the form of consoles with a rectilinear section, the lower part open perhaps serving as a vent.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.