Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de la Roque
Fayet, Aveyron, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Le château en totalité (cad. A 444) : inscription par arrêté du 19 mai 2004
- Protection dates
- 2004/05/19 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 2e moitié 16e siècle
- Later work
- Moyen Age, 18e siècle
- Dates
- 1577
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Fayet
- Département
- Aveyron
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.80309, 2.99652
- Mérimée reference
- PA12000031
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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, MunichIGN 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 1588 map "Ortelius, Abraham: Theatro De La Tierra Universal. 0" (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le château appartient au mouvement de constructions castrales que connut le Rouergue au 15e siècle. L'édifice n'a quasiment rien conservé de ses origines médiévales, l'essentiel du bâti étant postérieur à la guerre de Cent ans. Autour de 1577, le bâtiment a été remanié, agrandi et réhabilité de fenêtres à meneaux et défenses. Aux 18e et 19e siècles, le bâtiment est réaménagé et décoré pour en faire une demeure familiale.
English translation
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History
The castle belongs to the movement of castral constructions that Rouergue experienced in the 15th century. The building has retained virtually nothing of its medieval origins, the bulk of the built structure being posterior to the Hundred Years' War. Around 1577, the building was remodelled, enlarged and refurbished with mullioned windows and defences. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the building is reorganised and decorated to make it a family residence.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.