Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château du Vieux-Lavardin
Mézières-sous-Lavardin, Sarthe, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Château, ainsi que les courtines, les mottes et fossés et contrevallations (cad. C 392 à 394, 695) : inscription par arrêté du 28 février 1995
- Protection dates
- 1995/02/28 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château fort
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 12e siècle, 4e quart 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Mézières-sous-Lavardin
- Département
- Sarthe
- Region
- Pays de la Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.15034, 0.04350
- Mérimée reference
- PA00135560
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IGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1725 map "Le Maine, L'Anjou et La Touraine, La Beauche et La Sologne ...." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Site fortifié dès le 12e siècle, composé de trois mottes successives et d'une courtine polygonale. Château fort construit au 12e ou 13e siècle et reconstruit dans les années 1470 (logis construit après 1471).
English translation
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History
Fortified site from the 12th century, composed of three successive mottes and a polygonal curtain wall. Strong château built in the 12th or 13th century and rebuilt in the 1470s (main dwelling built after 1471).
Nearby in the register
- Manoir de la Corbinièremanoir1 mi
- Château du Tronchetchâteau3 mi
- Manoir (ancien)manoir3 mi
- Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-l'Habitchapelle3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.