Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château fort d'Apchon
Apchon, Cantal, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Le château fort en totalité, y compris le sol de ses parcelles d'assise (cad. A 225, 226) : inscription par arrêté du 24 février 2012
- Protection dates
- 2012/02/24 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château fort
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle, 13e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Apchon
- Département
- Cantal
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.25013, 2.69434
- Mérimée reference
- PA15000047
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
Les vestiges de cette forteresse du 12ème-13ème siècle et reconstruite au 15ème siècle permettent encore aujourd'hui de distinguer certaines des dispositions anciennes: les logis nord et est en équerre avec leurs tours, et une partie de l'enceinte avec ses tours et poternes.
English translation
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History
The remains of this fortress from the 12th-13th century and rebuilt in the 15th century still allow today the distinction of certain of the old arrangements: the northern and eastern dwellings in an L-shape with their towers, and a part of the enclosure with its towers and posterns.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Hippolyteéglise2 mi
- Église Saint-Martinéglise2 mi
- Sanctuaire marial de La Font-Sainteédifice religieux3 mi
- Église Sainte-Croix et Saint-Pierreéglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.