Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château du Colombier
Salles-la-Source, Aveyron, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château (cad. AL 115) : inscription par arrêté du 22 septembre 1995
- Protection dates
- 1995/09/22 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle, 15e siècle
- Later work
- 19e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Salles-la-Source
- Département
- Aveyron
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.48766, 2.52956
- Mérimée reference
- PA00135446
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 1637 map "Aquitania" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Représentatif de l'architecture seigneuriale et domestique du Rouergue entre le 14e et le 19e siècle. Donjon primitif carré du 14e siècle, utilisé comme pigeonnier ; château du 15e siècle, organisé autour d'une petite cour intérieure pavée ; aile nord remaniée au 19e siècle. La cour est fermée par un mur percé d'une grande porte ogivale entre deux constructions d'un étage, dont l'une comporte un escalier à vis. L'intérieur comprend, dans l'aile ouest, des décors peints.
English translation
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History
Representative of the seigniorial and domestic architecture of Rouergue between the 14th and 19th centuries. Primitive square keep of the 14th century, used as a dovecote; 15th-century castle, organised around a small paved inner courtyard; north wing reworked in the 19th century. The courtyard is closed by a wall pierced by a large ogee doorway between two single-storey buildings, one of which comprises a spiral staircase. The interior includes, in the western wing, painted decoration.
Nearby in the register
- Dolmen de Saint-Antonindolmenunder 1 mi
- Site archéologique du dolmen de la Vitarelle IIIsite archéologique2 mi
- Église Saint-Amans de Cadayracéglise2 mi
- Manoir de Curlandemanoir2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.