Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancien château
Gamaches, Somme, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Les deux tours (cad. AK 217a, 217b) : inscription par arrêté du 16 décembre 1986
- Protection dates
- 1986/12/16 : inscrit MH partiellement
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Gamaches
- Département
- Somme
- Region
- Hauts-de-France
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 49.98433, 1.55826
- Mérimée reference
- PA00116168
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1710 map "19. Les Embouchure de la Somme et de la Bresle Riviere ou est St. Valeri, Eu et Dieppe. 1710." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Propriété composée d'un ensemble de bâtiments divers : deux tours rondes en pierre subsistent de l'ancien château, l'une en ruine, l'autre très remaniée au 19e siècle, les bâtiments modernes, accolés à la tour entière, un portail, vraissemblablement du 17e siècle.
English translation
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History
Property composed of an ensemble of various buildings: two round stone towers remain from the former castle, one in ruin, the other heavily modified in the 19th century, modern buildings, attached to the intact tower, a gateway, probably from the 17th century.
Nearby in the register
- Égliseégliseunder 1 mi
- Moulin de Vissemoulin3 mi
- Oppidumoppidum3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.