Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de Grand-Champ
Bizeneuille, Allier, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Fronton sculpté (cad. AE 36) : inscription par arrêté du 10 février 1997
- Protection dates
- 1997/02/10 : inscrit MH partiellement
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 3e quart 19e siècle
- Dates
- 1858
- Architect or builder
- Valette Jean (sculpteur)
- Ownership
- propriété d'une société privée
- Commune
- Bizeneuille
- Département
- Allier
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.41604, 2.74739
- Mérimée reference
- PA03000001
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 1825 map "V.1:1-5: I: Frankreich. DEP: 43. Der Allier. 72. Des Puy De Donne" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le château occupe un site médiéval fortifié avec des douves en eau. Aménagé en maison de plaisance sous le Premier Empire et embelli sous le Second Empire par l'adjonction d'un fronton sculpté par Valette en 1858.
English translation
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History
The castle occupies a fortified medieval site with water-filled moats. Converted into a pleasure house under the First Empire and embellished under the Second Empire by the addition of a pediment sculpted by Valette in 1858.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.