Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de Morthimer
La Perrière, Orne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façades et toitures de la tour (cad. D 104) : inscription par arrêté du 27 mai 1975
- Protection dates
- 1975/05/27 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 2e quart 15e siècle
- Dates
- 1450
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- La Perrière
- Département
- Orne
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.39361, 0.45156
- Mérimée reference
- PA00110885
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Perchensis Comitatus : La Perche Comte" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Isolée devant le château, la tour circulaire est couronnée d'une galerie de mâchicoulis. Au rez-de-chaussée, une porte flamboyante est datée de 1506, mais la tour est antérieure. L'accès primitif se trouvait au premier étage, avec une poterne à pont-levis. A l'intérieur, la tour est carrée. Un escalier à vis hélicoïdal, sans noyau central, desservait les étages. A l'ouest se trouvent les niches de guet, et des meurtrières s'ouvrent aux angles sud-ouest et nord'ouest. La charpente porte la date de 1742.
English translation
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History
Isolated in front of the castle, the circular tower is crowned with a gallery of machicolations. On the ground floor, a Flamboyant door is dated 1506, but the tower is earlier. The original access was on the first floor, with a postern and drawbridge. Inside, the tower is square. A helical spiral staircase, without a central newel, served the floors. To the west are situated the guard niches, and murder-holes open at the south-west and north-west angles. The roof structure bears the date 1742.
Nearby in the register
- Logis de l'Evêquehôtelunder 1 mi
- Manoir de Soisaimanoir2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.